Following the New Wave filmmaker and icon’s death last month, it seems an appropriate time to revisit some of the films of Agnès Varda. Faces Places (or Visages Villages in the original French) is a collaboration between Varda and the artist JR, who combines photography and street art to create enormous murals often on the sides of…
Month: April 2019
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Eleven years, twenty two films and countless millions later, the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it is coming to an end. In the aftermath of the destruction reeked by Thanos in Infinity War, the survivors are coming to terms with the new world they find themselves living in after half the population has been decimated….
Now on Netflix: Good Time (2017)
After a bank heist that manages to go wrong in all the worst ways, Constantine “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) must try to get his vulnerable brother Nick (Benny Safdie) out of prison. In a vibrant and kinetic blur of a film taking place over the span of a day, Connie weaves his way through the…
Now on Netflix: Homecoming (2019)
Beyoncé’s performance at last year’s Coachella Music Festival was billed, and indeed received, as a cultural moment. The first ever black woman to headline the three day event, there was no doubt that this show would be a spectacle. Homecoming tracks the show’s evolution from concept to finished project, moving between high-definition footage of…