SXSW Online 2021 – Film Review -Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
An astonishingly expansive and texturally footsure study of folk horror's enduring influence on the arts, especially cinema. Utilising mixed media,...
Film Festivals
Alongside our in-depth reviews from some of the world’s biggest film festivals, you’ll also find the latest film news, exclusive features, trailers, interviews, and everything in between. We cover festivals from across the globe, including the Glasgow Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Fantasia International Film Festival, and FrightFest, bringing you the latest from the world of cinema all year round.
SXSW Online 2021 Review – Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil
There seems to have been quite a glut of documentaries chronicling the lives of musicians and pop stars in the...
BFI London Flare Film Festival Review – Jump, Darling (2020)
Jump Darling is from director/writer Phill Connell, an beautiful queer drama of budding drag queen Russell, a.k.a Fishy Falters. When...
BFI Flare 2021 Film Review – Jump, Darling (2020)
Jump, Darling starts with a bang. Almost. Because the actual explosive moment takes place off screen and is only briefly...
Berlin 2021 Film Review – Beans (2020)
For nearly 80 days in the summer of 1990, First Nations and the Canadian government went head to head in...
Frightfest Glasgow 21 – Film Review – Vicious Fun (2020)
Vicious Fun is an early 80's horror writer disturbs a deadly nest of serial killers. Joel, a horror movie critic...
Frightfest Glasgow 21 Review – American Badger (2020)
An empathy drained hitman targets a gang of evil Albanian sex traffickers in this profoundly violent meditation on redemption and...
Frightfest Glasgow 21 Review – The Old Ways (2020)
In The Old Ways , a feisty young woman with several dark secrets becomes the hostage of superstitious demon fighters...
Berlin 2021 Film Review – Night Raiders (2021)
It starts with a blank screen and a legend told in the Cree language, a prophecy telling of a saviour...
Berlin 2021 Film Review – Petite Maman (2021)
We're sure this is the case for many, many people but watching Celine Sciamma's latest dose of wonderfulness, a thought...
Berlin 2021 Film Review – Tina (2021)
Simply the best. Better than all the rest. Better than anyone. OK, starting a review of a documentary about the...
Berlin 2021 Film Review – Ted K (2021)
From 1978 to 1995, America’s most notorious domestic terrorist killed three people and injured 22 in a deadly mail bombing...
Film Review – Apples (Mila, 2020)
In Greece during the late 2000s, an unorthodox cinematic movement ignited in the wake of the country's financial crisis. Coined...
Berlin 2021 Film Review – I’m Your Man (2021)
It’s fascinated for years. From the confusion of Blade Runner’s Rachael to Spike Jonze’s seductively voiced OS in Her or...