Month: April 2017

Wdirector-director John Butler captured hearts and minds with his 2013 comedy The Stag; this new film deals with homophobia and conformism in a posh Irish boarding school. Very clearly, for him it is a personal and autobiographical project. For me, Handsome Devil exists in a tonal overlap in Venn’s diagram between John Carney’s Sing Street […]

LLondon, 1940. Catrin (Gemma Arterton) rushes home through the bombed-out streets at dusk. Without warning, she is swept away by a bomb explosion. Blinking with the grain of her eyes, she stumbles over a pile of broken bodies. Her initial horror turns to laughter when she realizes they are store mannequins. Then she notices that […]