Drop – Dir: Christopher Landon (13th Floor Film review)
Drop picks you up and carries you along for the ride dragging your reservations about all those yawning plot holes behind you.
Movie Reviews
The Penguin Lessons – Dir: Peter Cattaneo (13th Floor Film Review)
In The Penguin Lessons, The Full Monty’s Peter Cattaneo helms a sweet natured tale of redemption via Penguin set against a backdrop of political unrest.
Death Of A Unicorn Dir: Alex Scharfman (13th Floor Film Review)
Is it comedy, fantasy, horror, satire or drama? Death Of A Unicorn is a mysterious thing, much like an actual unicorn, but, unfortunately, not as interesting.
Novocaine – Dir: Dan Bert & Robert Olsen (13th Floor Film Review)
To say that a film moves at breakneck pace is an overworked trope, but this movie really earns the accolade.
A Working Man – Dir: David Ayer (13th Floor Film Review)
When we last saw Jason Statham, he was a Beekeeper, now he is just A Working Man…a blue collar everyman who just happens to have something close to superhuman powers.
Becoming Led Zeppelin Dir: Bernard MacMahon (13th Floor Film Review)
While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this “first officially sanctioned” Led Zeppelin documentary does a very good job of telling how the band got started and what made them so sonically exciting.
A Complete Unknown – Dir: James Mangold (13th Floor Film Review)
It’s finally here! James Mangold’s highly-anticipated Bob Dylan biopic opens in New Zealand cinemas today. So, was it worth the wait? In a word…yes.
Monster Summer – Dir: David Henrie (13th Floor Film Review)
Monster Summer brings a little witchcraft to Martha’s Vineyard and Mel Gibson along with it.
Nosferatu Dir: Robert Eggers (13th Floor Film Review)
American director Robert Eggers has stated that the “more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back.” In Nosferatu, Eggers extraordinary resurrection of FW Murnau’s 1922 silent classic, darkness shines like the day. You cannot run or hide from it. You must succumb to the darkness.
Anora – Dir: Sean Baker (13th Floor Film Review)
Sean Baker’s Anora, which won the Palme D’or at Cannes, the first American film to do so since Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, may remind audiences of Pretty Woman. But it’s more subversive and explicit take on the subject of sex work.