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SALTBURN – Anthony Willis
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE FILM, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER WAITING UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE DONE SO TO READ IT.
Saltburn is an extraordinary, almost unclassifiable film. It’s the sophomore effort of the writer/director/producer/actress Emerald Fennell, who became the first British woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar in 2020 for her debut film Promising Young Woman; readers may also know her as the showrunner of the thriller TV series Killing Eve, and for her performance as Camilla Parker-Bowles in The Crown. The film stars the brilliant Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, a young man who leaves his working class background and enters Oxford University, and immediately becomes infatuated by his handsome classmate Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). Felix invites Oliver to spend the summer at his family’s country estate – the Saltburn of the title – where he soon ingratiates himself with Felix’s mother Lady Elspeth (Rosamund Pike), his father Lord James (Richard E. Grant), and his sister Venetia (Alison Oliver), but makes an enemy of Felix’s American cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe). However, as the summer progresses, the relationships between Oliver and the Cattons begin to change, resulting in some truly devastating turns of events. Read more…
M3GAN – Anthony Willis
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
It’s always interesting to me to observe when things go ‘viral’ online. Right now, in the early months of 2023, you can’t open up Instagram or Tik-Tok without being confronted by some pre-teen girl (or, perhaps slightly creepily, not a pre-teen girl) re-creating the dance from M3GAN, a short scene where the protagonist of the movie of the same name prances in an office hallway – whirling arms and hair flips and even a hands-free cartwheel – before bloodily dispatching someone with the blade of a paper guillotine. The dance craze comes from the eponymous movie, a horror-thriller with a rich vein of dark humor, about a toy designer who makes an incredibly lifelike android companion for her recently orphaned niece, but who then comes to regret making it when the doll/robot inevitably becomes self-aware and goes awry, embarking on a murderous rampage. Read more…
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