They Will Kill You review – limb-lopping cartoon…
They Will Kill You opens with a happy family gathered around a dining table. Two young sisters stand out in the dark and the pouring rain, looking
Fallen Star: In Praise of The Man Who Fell To…
From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating further from his mission and
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes…
When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more than a bit of valuable IP,
Arco review – primary-colour, major-key…
“What if rainbows were people from the future travelling in time?” is the sort of tagline that will make many punters run for the hills,
Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness over revenge, and an earnest
How To Make A Killing review – social satire with…
Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it for the next six months.
If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not least because it predates both
Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…
The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, in which four generations of
Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât, a film about life, death, and
Diving into the SXSW film line-up
In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps if you’ve cultivated a specific vibe