Cinema Clash: SILENCE

Welcome to the first installment of our brand new segment...CINEMA CLASH, where two of our writers will battle to the death (not really) in defense of their position, one for and one against, of a particular film.  Today, Jonathan and James will be debating the pros and cons of Martin Scorsese's latest endeavor...SILENCE. Enjoy!!

Movie Review: SILENCE

After receiving a worrying letter from their mentor Ferreira (Liam Neeson) from Japan, Portuguese priests Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Garrpe (Adam Driver) embark on a journey to reach Japan in order to find their beloved colleague and help the Christians against the religious oppression perpetuating during the 1600s by the hand of the Japanese Buddhists.

Movie Review: PATERSON

Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in, coincidentally, Paterson, New Jersey. He lives in a humble home with his girlfriend Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) and they are happily in love with each other and their dog. Paterson also happens to write poetry routinely as he goes around town in his bus and experiences everyday life.

As anyone who has heard of this film you will probably know that there is no hook in the synopsis, no inciting incident. Paterson is a film that looks at routine and ordinariness and succeeds in that is a, fittingly, poetic look at the joys of simplicity and tranquility and a wonderfully absorbing filmmaking effort that is most unlikely to any other film I've seen this year.

London Film Festival: PATERSON

London Film Fest has been fantastic and I've had the pleasure of seeing so many great films.  This time around, I got the chance to see the latest film starring Adam Driver, PATERSON.

Movie Review: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

It's confusing that an original indie movie shot over 40 days for 18M is a better Superman movie than any $200M Superman movie WB has made in the last 15 or so years.

If we’re going to discuss Midnight Special I feel it’s important to bring up the current slew of superhero films coming out today. No, I’m not a part of the super right wing superhero fatigue camp, nor on the ultra-left-wing “we live or die by the capes” side of things. I just like new inventive movies. I bring these movies up because it says something about the kind of era we’re stepping into now. Since around the 1970s with the original Star Wars and Jaws we went into the era of the Blockbuster. Films that follow certain conventions, please many audiences and take us through grand stories in an inventive way. We’re still in that era of course (I mean I just saw The Jungle Book like two weeks ago), but the Blockbuster era is slightly changing.