ROB MARSHALL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 2018. Lucamar Productions, Marc Platt Productions, Walt Disney Pictures. Screen story by David Magee, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Screenplay by David Magee, based on the Mary Poppins stories by P.L. Travers. Cinematography by Dion Beebe. Produced by John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Marc Platt. Music by Marc Shaiman. Production Design by John Myhre. Costume…
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The Favourite (2018)
YORGOS LANTHIMOS Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Ireland/United Kingdom/USA, 2018. Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Film4, Waypoint Entertainment. Screenplay by Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday. Music by William Lyons, Johnnie Burn. Production Design by Fiona Crombie. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film Editing by Yorgos Mavropsaridis. Golden Globe Awards 2018….
How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. United Kingdom/USA, 2017. Little Punk, See-Saw Films. Screenplay by Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell, based on the short story by Neil Gaiman. Cinematography by Frank G. DeMarco. Produced by Iain Canning, Howard Gertler, John Cameron Mitchell, Emile Sherman. Music by Nico Muhly, Jamie Stewart. Production Design by Helen Scott. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film…
Wonderstruck (2017)
TODD HAYNES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 2017. Amazon Studios, Cinetic Media, FilmNation Entertainment, Killer Films, Picrow. Screenplay by Brian Selznick, based on his book. Cinematography by Edward Lachman. Produced by Pamela Koffler, John Sloss, Christine Vachon. Music by Carter Burwell. Production Design by Mark Friedberg. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film Editing by Affonso Goncalves. Cannes Film Festival 2017. A little boy (Oakes Fegley) in 1970s…
Carol (2015)
TODD HAYNES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBBB. United Kingdom/USA, 2015. The Weinstein Company, Film4, Number 9 Films, StudioCanal, HanWay Films, Killer Films, Goldcrest Films International, Dirty Films, Infilm, Larkhard Films. Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy, based on the novel The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. Cinematography by Edward Lachman. Produced by Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley. Music by…
Cinderella (2015)
KENNETH BRANAGH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. Allison Shearmur Productions, Beagle Pug Films, Genre Films, Walt Disney Pictures. USA, 2015. Screenplay by Chris Weitz. Cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos. Produced by David Barron, Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur. Music by Patrick Doyle. Production Design by Dante Ferretti. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film Editing by Martin Walsh. Academy Awards 2015. If you thought you didn’t need another Cinderella movie, you…
The Tempest (2010)
BB.5 (out of 5) There is such promise in the pairing of Julie Taymor’s ripe visual style with one of Shakespeare’s most wondrous fantasies, and yet this one does not measure up to the power of her adaptation of Titus. Helen Mirren is excellent as the gender-switched Prospera, who rules the rocky outpost she has lived…
The Young Victoria
BBBB (out of 5) Having lost her father in infancy, princess Victoria grows up in a cage with golden bars under the careful watch of her politically scheming mother (Miranda Richardson) and her mother’s even more viciously ambitious advisor (Mark Strong). As Victoria is next in line for the throne, and King William (Jim Broadbent)…
Shutter Island
BB.5 (out of 5) A terrific display of art direction surrounding a pretty empty experience of a movie, one that further aggravates the senses by taking up almost two and a half hours of your time. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are New York City detectives who are brought to a spooky island asylum to investigate the…
The Wolf Of Wall Street
BBB (out of 5) Martin Scorsese situates GoodFellas in the stock exchange for this biopic of Jordan Belfort (played here by Leonardo DiCaprio), the Wall Street tycoon who starts out a faceless trader on the floors of the financial capital before owning his own multi-billion dollar company founded on shady deals and crooked methods. By…
The End Of The Affair (1999)
BB.5 (out of 5) Ralph Fiennes has a devastating hatred for a married woman (Julianne Moore) with whom he was once in love. Flashing back we find out that they once had a passionate affair that ended abruptly without the slightest explanation from her. The reasons behind her sudden change of feeling, and the intricacies of…
The Butcher Boy
BB (out of 5) Unappealing drama from Neil Jordan about a ruthlessly militant boy (an excellent Eamonn Owens) who terrorizes his neighbourhood in an attempt to promote his personal (and weird) philosophies on life. Though it takes place in lush 50s Ireland, this is no Angela’s Ashes: some might be amused by the film’s excessive…
