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Porous Encounters: A Queer East Correspondence

This is the second of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together…

2 days ago

Disclosure Day | The War Of The Worlds | Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | E.T.

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day. We then take a look at some of…

5 days ago

Time and Water review – a lament for a…

“I cannot send you a glacier, but at least I can send you this.” Time and Water sets out its purpose early on.…

1 week ago

Disclosure Day review – distinctly lacking in…

So far, so Spielberg – he sets the stage for an ambitious, epic, action-heavy story about a group of do-gooders facing…

2 weeks ago

Scary Movie review – belated return of the…

Like an irksome stinging insect nonetheless vital to controlling excess animal population, the Scary Movie franchise serves a worthy function in…

2 weeks ago

Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen…

The British Film Institute was following a similar trail of hyperlinks. Kitty Robertson, an assistant curator at the BFI National Archive,…

2 weeks ago

Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks…

3 weeks ago

Tuner review – woefully off-key

Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…

3 weeks ago

The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides…

4 weeks ago

The End of It – first-look review

Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona's feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition…

4 weeks ago