MOVIE

Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a stimulating…

The inner lives of buildings and institutions provide an intriguing and enlivening way of looking at the modern landscape, particularly…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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,…

3 months ago

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,…

3 months ago