Review – Armand (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Sexual assault is an issue that society and institutions often fail to address seriously, with inadequate procedures in place to...
world cinema
Film Review – Ikiru (1952)
Akira Kurosawa was one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers. While he’s often celebrated for his bold, ambitious filmmaking, as seen in...
Film Review – Radical (2023)
The inspirational teacher. It’s a movie standard: Dead Poets’ Society, To Sir With Love, even School Of Rock all come...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – PÁRVULOS (2024)
Parvulos is a superior survival horror invigorates the pandemic apocalypse blueprint with heart-wrenching family drama, jet-black hilarity, and vicious coming-of-age...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – Steppenwolf (2024)
Steppenwolf is an unrelentingly violent neo-Western from Kazakhstan channels the animalistic element of Hesse's infamous counterculture novel to mirror the...
Film Review – Crossing (2024)
Crossing is one of those small, intimate stories that ends up feeling momentous and significant precisely because of how well...
Film Review – Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Found footage horror films are a staple of the genre. While The Blair Witch Project was not the first found...
Film Review – Kill (2024)
The title certainly gets straight to the point. It would be deeply unsurprising if the pitch for Kill were “The...
Film Review – Creation of the Gods 1: Kingdom of Storms (2023)
Large-scale fantasy epics are quite few and far between, and the quality of such projects has been inconsistent, to say...
Film Review – The Moon (2023)
Space will always be a fascinating subject matter in film. Whether it's the story of how we avoided disaster with...
Film Review – Green Border (2023)
Agnieszka Holland, the celebrated director from Poland, returns with a powerful and pressing film. Holland is a leading figure in...
Review: Shinobi (1962)
Massively successful and influential when they were released in Japan during the early ‘60s, the Shinobi No Mono films never...
Film Review – The Shape of Night (1964)
Post-war Japan was an intriguing period for the nation as a whole. It wasn’t until after the Allied occupation ended...
Film Review – Black Mask (1996)
Jet Li is one of my favourite martial arts action stars. I adore his work. So, heading into Black Mask,...