Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

For many of us, it might seem shocking that twenty years have passed since Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and the world of fashion exploded onto our cinema screens in The Devil Wears Prada. The exact same feeling might have erupted when the sequel itself was announced. Where, how, and more importantly, why, could such an idea be dreamed up beyond fiscal gain?

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With the recent release of Antoine Fuqua’s Michael very much splitting opinion, with the divide seemingly set between fans and critics, it’s also been a time to discuss what a musical biopic should be. Many have claimed one should always separate the art from the artist, but that’s arguably not what Michael does; it simply ignores the more disturbing elements of the t...

From 1963 to 1972, Steve McQueen was ‘the king of cool’; he carried a laidback attitude with an unconventional sheen, where he said very little but stole every scene he was in.

He grew up rough and tumble, with his father abandoning him as a baby, and living through the wrath of an alcoholic mother, before stints in petty crime, military school, and eventually ...

There is a truly fascinating film to be made about Michael Jackson, but Antoine Fuqua’s incredibly cliched biopic isn’t it. Charting the rise of the late pop icon from his early days in the Jackson Five, run by their abusive father Joseph (a reliably solid Colman Domingo), Michael zips along at quite a pace, never fleshing anything out and completing every cliche you ...

The Seventies was a decade in which audiences were bombarded with great cinema; indeed, there are many who still consider it to be the greatest decade in cinema history. We had the birth of the blockbuster as we know it in 1975, with Spielberg’s Jaws hitting cinemas and convincing people that it was absolutely not safe to enter the water anymore. We were introduced to...