Joaquin Phoenix has carved a niche in acting that he occupies alone – wiry, prismatic, sharp & brittle. His character roles arguably are all quite similar, all a bit strange and enigmatic. I’ve come to expect extraordinary performances from Phoenix. You Were Never Really Here is no different. Phoenix plays Joe, a hitman who specialises…
I’ve deliberately avoided as much as I can about Joker, I adore Batman and The Dark Knight Trilogy are some of my favourite films. I heard all the hype leading up to the film’s release, will it cause a social crisis and incite violence? Is it just buffed up nonsense? Given Joker’s popularity in alt-right/incel…
I hadn’t heard anything at all of A Monster Calls at all, off the back of my boyfriend’s recommendation, we went to see it on New Year’s Day. I had watched the trailer around 30 minutes before settling into a barren cinema, and was intrigued. The premise of the film, Conor, a twelve year old…
Studio Ghibli has been bringing ‘alt’ kids movies to the world for over 30 years. It’s been the dominating alternative to Disney, offering odd, weird and wonderful stories, without the usual sprinkling of sugar coating that Disney offers. I personally got on board with Ghibli when Spirited Away was released. I was transfixed and in…
We’re all tiring now of Super Hero movies? Admit it, the only decent addition the comic book collection this year has been Deadpool. Suicide Squad was built up and advertised as part Deadpool, part standard comic book movie, the antidote to a tired and well worn genre of films, and the fan boy talk online…
With intriguing trailers and very little marketing ‘hype’, 10 Cloverfield Lane first caught my interest with a simple TV trailer (which given I don’t watch much TV, is pretty good going that I even managed to discover this film). The trailer looked interesting, a woman, in an underground bunker with two men who are telling her…
I’ve signed up to a multiplex chain loyalty monthly scheme, because 1) there’s not a great deal to do on the island 2) the bad/good film ratio tends to even out making the monthly cost worthwhile. So, I went to see We Are Your Friends. My verdict before we bought tickets; ‘the soundtrack will be better…
23rd of July 2011 will forever be in my memory. For starters, it was the day I finally managed to get myself a laptop after getting a huge tax rebate from the government. Just after finishing university and slogging down at the library to write my dissertation, little known fact, libraries do have opening hours,…
On January 7th 2015, two Islamist extremists stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine headquarters and brutally gunned down eleven of the staff, including cartoonists, and then one police officer during their escape. After, the two perpetrators fled across Paris, eventually taking hostages in a signage company and were gunned down when…
Before Steve McQueen became a household name with his adaptation of slave narrative 12 Years a Slave, he certainly wasn’t well-known for his mainstream films, primarily established on the short film festival circuit. His début, Hunger, about the 1981 Irish IRA hunger strikes came to prominence in the awards season. But between these two films, came something…
**This post has numerous spoilers in Melancholia** Melancholia, released in 2011, is perhaps one of Lars Von Trier’s more financially successful films, and perhaps the most palatable to mainstream audiences. Well known for his shock-value film making, and a career that began in the artistic-indie realm of Dogme filmmaking, Von Trier took a distinct move…
Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a new feature here on FlikGeek (all is explained here!) Indie Game: The Movie is a 2012 documentary by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot examining the production and launch process of three indie games, Braid, Fez and Super Meat Boy. The film doesn’t look at fans, or the gaming world in-depth,…
Magic Mike was perhaps one of the strangest films to come out in 2012. Marketed primarily at women, with its glistening hard bodied cast, big pecs, big packages, thrusting its way through the ad breaks of day time tv, it also garnered the interest of many well established and quite esteemed film critics, for many…
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is perhaps best described as a crisis movie, and not really a “romantic adventure comedy drama” Wikipedia’s words, not mine. The reason I say that, is because it’s based in an all too familiar environment, the financial crisis, job instability, fear of unemployment, corporate takeovers driven by money and…
Despite being a lover of all things film, one genre that’s never particularly struck well with me is romance. Whether it’s romantic classics or rom-coms, I’ve never quite…got it. Perhaps my scepticism of that perfect, ‘OMG I can’t breathe without you’ fluffy, rose-tinted view of the world somewhat dampens my ability to buy into those…
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