In Review Online

4 days ago | inreviewonline.com | Luke Gorham

It wasn’t his debut or even his first major work, but Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s opening credits to Tropical Malady deliver perhaps the moment that summarizes everything he’s made: a seductive flirtation with the camera, complete with protagonist Keng (Bonlop Lomnoi) occasionally looking away when the supposed eye contact grows too intense.

1 week ago | inreviewonline.com | Luke Gorham

Decades in the making but arguably being released five years prematurely, 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to 2002’s seminal, lo-fi zombie film 28 Days, Later arrives in a world it both anticipated as well as shaped.

1 week ago | inreviewonline.com | Luke Gorham

“This language of the unreal, this fictive language which delivers us to fiction, comes from silence and returns to silence.” – Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature“Force, presence, shape, they were all only words and none of them mattered. It wore many masks, but it was all one.” – Stephen King, The Shining Gothic cinema inherits an ongoing obsession with writers and writing from its literary ancestors, but how does it translate such text-based fixations into its own audiovisual grammar?

1 week ago | inreviewonline.com | Luke Gorham

Cinematographer Bill Pope must have done something awful in 2022. Maybe he ran over some studio executive’s cat or perhaps his children beat out the wrong financier’s kids in soccer tryouts. Whatever it was, the film gods have been out to get him ever since. He once worked with The Wachowskis on The Matrix trilogy, Sam Raimi on the majority of his best-known works, Edgar Wright on the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, and even with Robert Rodriguez on his underrated Alita: Battle Angel.

1 week ago | inreviewonline.com | Luke Gorham

In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular art of adaptation has become all but a lost skill. Gone are the days where works of literature were made to prove enduring popularity or renown, or were vetted for their perceived adaptability, or had their rights held until a prestige director signed up to guide them toward awards glory.