FUSE Magazine film writer and movie buff Dwayne Lennoxs picks his movie highlights and must-sees for Winter 2023, including The Blue Caftan, Till, Living and Love Again.
NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Ahead of the arrival of the second season of Dr Who (Disney+), Ncuti Gatwa hits the big screen; not as the two-hearted Timelord but in a joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s popular comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. Gatwa plays Jack, who, like his friend Algy (Hugh Skinner), leads a double life; one of dutiful guardianship in the country and the life of the party in town. Of course, complications arise for the pair when romance rears its ugly head.
Ncuti Gatwa leads a Wilde party of irresistible anarchic charm. Gatwa’s Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy’s subversive queerness. -— The Guardian
This production for London’s National Theatre is directed by Max Webster, responsible for bringing Life of Pi to the stage.
Flow
A Mesmerising Dance of Survival and Silence
With a series of wins across the 2024 awards season, the success of Latvian animated film Flow culminated in the ultimate prize: the Oscar for Animated Feature, beating out billion-dollar grosser Inside Out 2 and Australia’s own Memoir of a Snail. This dialogue-free film follows the travails of a dark grey cat, and a collection of other animal companions, in what seems to be a post-apocalyptic world where the water level is rising at an alarming rate.
Latvia’s first-ever Oscar winner, Flow was also nominated for Best International Feature Film.
Crossing
Captivates the heart and mind
When Lia (Mzia Arabuli), a retired school teacher living in Georgia, receives news that her long-lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey, she heads to Istanbul to bring her niece home and end their years of estrangement. While in Instanbul, Lia meets Evrim (Deniz Dumanli), a lawyer fighting for trans rights.
Directed by Levan Akin, whose previous film And Then We Danced also dealt with queer themes, Crossing premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival where it received the Teddy Award Jury Prize for LGBTIQ-themed films.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Cruise’s MOST mind-boggling, death-defyingfilm yet!
Who could have foreseen that what began 30 years ago under the helm of Brian DePalma — a big screen reboot of the 1960s TV show Mission: Impossible — would culminate in 2025 with the eighth (and possibly final) film in one of the most successful movie franchises of all time?
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt has been running, jumping and punching his way through all eight films, egged on to ever-greater feats of stuntman madness by writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, who has overseen the last four entries in the action-crammed saga.
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