A faceless office building, the monotony of a Monday morning, a damp cloth to wipe away the weekend’s dust. Are our protagonists, who shepherd the newly deceased into the afterlife with one precious memory to take with them, angels? Takashi, Shiori, and their coworkers trudge through their day’s work with a calm, detached demeanour — …
I knew I would feel a certain way about Nomadland before ever watching it. It’s delicate subject matter with an even more delicate conceit: the immense impact of economic disparity and late capitalism seen through the eyes of a woman intent on escaping it, channelled through the experiences of real people — “nomads,” as the film calls …
“You are the bravest boy I’ve ever met.” My favourite PTA changes day by day, but to me this is the one that only he could have made. Like many of his movies, it’s a love story, but it’s also an indictment of how we treat veterans and the long term effects of war on …
One of the films I instantly gravitated towards when I first got into film, probably around 15 or 16, which is maybe too young to fully appreciate some of the themes (though Paul Thomas Anderson was younger than I am now when he made it). I can see why I was so charmed by it …