★★★
Perhaps all too aware that the memoir of John Callahan plays very friendly to his brand of no-hopers-done-good cinema, director Gus Van Sant tackles this adaptation of the cartoonist’s biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot with a wilful, often alienating, idiosyncrasy. The film marks an admirable attempt to break Hollywood moulds and actually comes pretty close in the hands of its exceptional cast.
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Blindspotting | Review
★★★★★
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have said that ninety per cent of their first draft for Blindspotting made it to the final film. That means that the vast majority of the racial and social inequality attacked in this hugely topical production was penned in from the start. Diggs and Casal wrote Blindspotting – which is a film primarily concerned with nature of moving on – over a decade ago.
★★★
The ever-captivating Andrea Riseborough turns in yet another powerful and arresting performance at the cold heart of Nancy. From debutant feature director Christina Choe, this painfully melancholic not-quite thriller offers an empathetic character study, concerned with themes of loss, isolation and deception. It is, through and through, an actors movie, albeit one that should move Choe towards finding a deserved spotlight.
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