Ran is one of the fiercest displays of cinematic prowess to ever grace the screen. A monumental Japanese epic about the devastating dangers of power and arrogance spilling into apocalyptic madness.

Akira Kurosawa came back from industry exile to make Ran, having secured international funding for Ran's production. In the 20 years before Ran, Kurosawa suffered professional disappointment, humiliation, and even attempted suicide, while altogether struggling to make another film.

Watching Ran, you can tell Kurosawa made it thinking he…

Sentimental Value is the most piercing movie I've seen this year and possibly my favourite, alongside Sinners and One Battle After Another.

Aged Norwegian film director Gustav Borg tries to reconcile with his estranged actress daughter Nora by casting her in an autobiographical film. When Nora refuses, Gustav instead casts a famous American actress.

Sentimental Value is crafted with utmost precision. Whereas Joachim Trier's last movie The Worst Person in the World ebbed and flowed based on the whims of…

Stocks is an animated improv comedy.

Storks sets up the Monsters Inc. meets storks-delivering-babies premise, then riffs for 87 minutes. The humour has a fast spontaneous feel that'll delight children. There's irreverent line deliveries, frequent slapstick, and absurd breaks with reality. The antagonistic wolf pack transforming itself into various vehicles is particularly bizarre and hilarious.

Not every one of Stork's jokes is a winner, such is its speedy Mel Brooksian inventiveness. For instance, Pigeon Toady and his grating voice are…

A nervy little heist thriller straight from the 90s.

Tuner has a simple genre premise (hypersensitive hearing piano tuner cracks safes) centred on empathetic characters spiralling into disaster. Former prodigy Niki just wants to make a little cash and help his ailing boss, but winds up stuck with some unsavoury mobsters determined to exploit his unusual skill.

Tuner splits the difference between Good Will Hunting and Elevator to the Gallows. Director Daniel Roher exercises some stylistic flair in his first…

I, unlike the vast majority of people, saw The Pacific before Band of Brothers. I feel this is important because The Pacific is placed under the shadow of its predecessor and is judged intensely against it; more so even than most movies. While comparison is always a good way to understand any piece of media, we should always acknowledge a separate identity for any creative work.

This review will look at The Pacific as its own individual series, per usual…

WOW…!

That is about the best phrase to describe 2001: A Space Odyssey, by far one of the greatest and most monumental films ever made.

A journey through time and space, 2001: A Space Odyssey details humanity's encounters with a series of mysterious monoliths appearing at vital moments in human evolution, from a point in the long forgotten past to a deep future one can only dream of.

No one on the face of the planet, hell even the universe,…