SXSW Online 2021 – Film Review – The Feast
One night. One House. One hell of a feast. A dysfunctional family and their guests face the wrath of an...
Film Festivals
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SXSW Online 2021 – Film Review – Here Before (2021)
Andrea Riseborough. Wowsers. What an actor she is and while many are still slowly acclimatising themselves to her work, others...
BFI London Flare Film Festival Review – Cowboys (2020)
Screened (digitally) as part of the BFI London Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2021, Cowboys gives a voice to children struggling...
BFI Flare 2021 Film Review – Cowboys (2020)
Cowboys arrives at BFI Flare as something of an indie favourite on the festival circuit. Awards at last year’s Tribeca...
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,...
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...