Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

There’s no doubt that Christopher Nolan has changed the face of cinema, and with The Odyssey, he’s created more history by giving us the first film shot entirely in IMAX. Like James Cameron before him, new technology has had to be invented for him to achieve his vision, but unlike Cameron, every Nolan film to date has been relevant in one form or another.

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It takes more than gore to make a movie disturbing, but it certainly helps. The most disturbing cinema of this decade so far is sometimes gory, sometimes suggestive, but almost always tense. This list is a space for eye gouging, non-medical surgery, bullying, brutalizing, and high, high, high tension. But it’s also a place of icy remove, static cinematography, and hau...

Event cinema returns to our screens, or strictly speaking, our IMAX screens if you witness The Odyssey in the way that Christopher Nolan intends. The last time Nolan blasted onto our screens was back in 2023 with Oppenheimer, a film that became a cultural phenomenon as part of the ‘Barbenheimer’ double bill, itself amassing nearly $1 billion worldwide while Greta Gerw...

From the definitive symbol of 1960s Swinging London cool to the respectable elder statesman of the current industry, Michael Caine has had a long, varied career where he starred in over 150 movies with an ability to swerve into any genre he pleased.

He was born Maurice Micklewhite in South London to a tough working-class family, before WW2 left his neighbourhoo...

With the release of Megalopolis in 2024, Coppola unleashed on the world a film that felt like it had been gestating almost as long as his career—something that, in terms of feature films, began way back in 1963. While the reaction to Megalopolis was nearly as sprawling as the film itself, it proved one thing—we’re all still interested in what the man behind some of th...