Tag: Author: Rhys Handley

Review

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood (Marielle Heller, 2020), TriStar Pictures, USA, 16mm / DCP, colour, sound, 109 Minutes, Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks)

Tom Hanks inhabits a fellow American icon in this warm nostalgia trip

Interview

Benedict Andrews, Born 1972, Adelaide, Australia

“It took a while to land on Kristen, but once we did it was like ‘Holy fuck, how could it have been anyone else!?'”

Review

Honey Boy (Alma Har'el, 2019), Amazon Studios, USA, DCP, colour, sound, 93 Minutes, James Lort (Shia LaBeouf)

Shia LaBeouf mines patriarchal pain to bring his own coming-of-age to the screen

Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019), Lionsgate, USA, DCP, colour, sound, 130 Minutes, Lieutenant Elliott (Lakeith Stanfield), Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)

Rian Johnson takes aim at modern America in a playful, ingenious murder mystery

The Report (Scott Z. Burns, 2019), Amazon Studios, USA, DCP, colour, sound, 119 minutes, Daniel Jones (Adam Driver)

The truth will out as Adam Driver takes on the CIA in real-life post-9/11 thriller

Interview

Bertrand Bonello, Born 9 November 1968, Nice, France

“I became interested in looking into the truth of the zombie and bringing it back home to Haiti.”

Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello, 2019), MUBI, France, DCP, colour, sound, 103 Minutes, Fanny (Louise Labeque)

Teen trifles clash with sacred traditions and powerful voodoo in Bertrand Bonello’s diasporic meditation

Ghost Town Anthology / Répertoire des Villes Disparues (Denis Côté , 2019), Canada, 16mm, colour, sound, 97 minutes, Jimmy Dubé (Robert Naylor)

Tragedy dredges up the spectres of the past in Denis Côté’s chilling community parable