Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

It’s a given that studios often don’t know what will be a success until audiences have spoken and voted with their wallets. Then, whatever is popular, you can bet executives will get their chequebooks out and make as much of it as humanly possible. We saw the ‘slasher’ craze take over the industry once “Halloween” hit big in 1978, while we’re still being flooded with ...

Bong Joon Ho exploded into mainstream cinema with his Oscar winning Parasite back in 2019. But he’d been directing feature films for nearly two decades by that point; far from being simply the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture, Parasite’s win was one that had been years in the making.

He’s one of the most fascinating filmmakers working today, and ...

The 2020s, so far, have been smothered in directorial debuts. Fresh new voices announce themselves each year (especially 2022). More access to filmmaking tools, more people making movies, more movies in general, and the result: Aftersun, Hundreds of Beavers, Past Lives, American Fiction, Promising Young Woman, Azor, Nickel Boys…and the list of debuts that hit big goes...

Despite Hollywood’s monopoly on film, some of the best and most imaginative thrillers have come from elsewhere. As ever, with the culture of consumption in the world as it is today, visibility for many of these films is limited. Dare I say it, there are still many out there who baulk at the very idea of subtitles, a baffling problem, you might agree.

For these ...

Well this is something of a thankless task. One could argue there is no bigger name in Hollywood in terms of directors than Steven Spielberg, and across his thirty five feature length films (as well as directing a segment of the 1983 Twilight Zone movie) he has wowed audiences with his ability to blend spectacle and emotion, not to mention storytelling, on a scale tha...