Friday reviews for 18 August 2023

Last Film Show, Jules, Strays and Monolith are new in cinemas, Heart of Stone is streaming on Netflix and Red, White and Royal Blue is on Prime Video

A few weeks ago I wrote an article for RNZ arguing against the common cinephile opinion that 35mm (or 70mm or IMAX) film was inherently superior to digital presentation.

I stand by this. Empirically speaking, there’s no longer any justification for the constantly deteriorating picture quality and environmental wastefulness of film in cinemas. To argue ot…