Film Review – Mothers’ Instinct (2023)
You’re intrigued from the start. The opening scene of Mothers’ Instinct feels so off-kilter that you’re pointed in a definite...
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Film Review – Drift (2023)
The incoming tide dissolves a pair of solitary footprints in the sand in just seconds. And for Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo)...
Film Review – Monster (2023)
During Monster one of the characters states that “what actually happened doesn’t matter.” As the film goes on, this statement...
Film Review – Robot Dreams (2023)
Jimmy Kimmel and his scriptwriters hardly covered themselves with glory at the Oscars. Robert Downey Jnr was unimpressed by the...
Film Review – The New Boy (2023)
After six years away from cinema screens, Australian director Warwick Thornton returns with a story which draws on his childhood...
2024 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
In a capitalist society, our routines are drilled into us practically from birth. Wake up, go to work, come home,...
Film Review – The Taste of Things (2023)
“Everything started with something they ate,” with this line The Taste of Things was referring to Adam and Eve eating...
Film Review – Origin (2023)
With a film like Origin, it is hard to know where to begin talking or writing about it, which may be why...
Film Review – Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
If you have read this intrepid writer's work previously, firstly, thank you. Secondly, you may know that, as a child...
Film Review – Dune: Part Two (2024)
They always said it was the unfilmable novel. Unlike anything anyone had read before, Frank Herbert’s Dune caused quite a...
Film Review – Wicked Little Letters (2023)
In the days not-so-long before social media, trolling took a different form. Anonymous letters. Or, to use their more descriptive...
Film Review – Memory (2023)
We rely on it all the time, but memory is remarkably fragile, unreliable and changeable. Yet, as Michel Franco’s film...
Film Review – Perfect Days (2023)
You are biking past a bridge reflecting the lights of your city twice, toward the sky and the waters below....
Film Review – Eureka (2023)
They used to be called portmanteau or anthology films, but appear on screen so infrequently now that a label hardly...