Film Review

Buster Keaton – the great Silent comic known for his witty, fearless stunts – appears briefly at the very start of John Wick 3, glimpsed

By Preston Wilder Cypriot cinema comes of age in Smuggling Hendrix, a comedy that’s already done us proud by winning a number of awards (notably

By Preston Wilder Why get angry? This is what diasporas do. The Armenian diaspora did it a couple of years ago with The Promise, a

By Preston Wilder If war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means, then Avengers: Endgame is the continuation of Comic Con – which took

By Preston Wilder Another week, another film for non-Anglophones – but it’s not like you have to watch Mektoub, My Love in its brief, Greek-subtitled

By Preston Wilder If this is ‘After’ I’d hate to see the ‘Before’, hahaha! Sorry, that was unfair and reductive – though also a reminder

By Preston Wilder When it comes to Mug, the ‘what?’ is less important than the ‘why?’ – not why the film exists but why it’s

By Preston Wilder Hellboy (David Harbour) is red, “like a baboon’s arse” – or more pertinently blood-red, this new reboot of the comic-book character (set

By Preston Wilder A sign on the wall reads ‘Choose to be a forever home’. The camera lingers on the sign, and indeed why shouldn’t

By Preston Wilder We open with Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) trying to fast-talk an investor, which is something Vincent (and Jesse Eisenberg) does well. Vincent needs

By Preston Wilder It’s an astonishing week at the Cyprus multiplex; I’ve never seen anything like it. All three new releases – Us, Dragged Across

By Preston Wilder I assume ‘Us’ also means ‘US’, though not in the highly specific way of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut Get Out. “Who are

By Preston Wilder When the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) films become so innumerable that quick tags are needed to tell them apart, Captain Marvel will

By Preston Wilder Any number of self-righteous people, from Spike “bad call” Lee to the edgier type of film critic, are treating Green Book’s Best

By Preston Wilder There’s terrifying, and then there’s just tasteless. It’s a fine line, especially if we’re talking evil-child movies. 46 years ago, The Exorcist