“What scares you? What makes you angry? Do you feel lonely? What makes you happy?”

Movies may be artifice, but in the best-made films you never really notice that they’re faking it.

They feel real, lived-in, recognizable, whether in space or on a speeding bus that can’t slow down or inside a cramped apartment.

“C’mon C’mon” feels real.....

Kids can be safely relied on to say the darnedest things, and in Mike Mills’ latest feature, indeed they do. But they…

DUNE was everything I wanted it to be and more! From the reams of backroom intrigue, unscrupulous politicking and densely-wrought pan-global mysticism, Denis Villeneuve has made this film which does justice to a hallowed text while retaining the slick formal shape of a pop movie. And that, in itself, is no small achievement. Where Villeneuve’s previous work, Blade Runner 2049, too often embraced soporific longueurs as a shortcut to profundity, here the sheer meatiness of this ripping yarn is always…

“Empty spaces, abundant silence....”

“Why do we ask so many questions? Two people shouldn’t know each other too well if they want to fall in love.”

For all those times you’ve met someone who you think is really awesome, you had a great time with them and, due to forces beyond your comprehension, you suddenly drift apart. And then, you never see that person again. The desire is extinguished, wholly. And then you meet another person who is really awesome.…