Quo Vadis, Aida? – Review
The Bosnian War – the result of the break up of Yugoslavia amongst other issues – raged from April 1992 until December 1995. Ethnic cleansing was common practice, through either mass murder or forced...
Category Archives: 2020
The Kid Detective – Review
There are plenty of movies about bright child stars struggling to adapt with obscurity or notoriety in childhood. They usually roll out plenty of tropes around alcoholism, dingy apartments, failing c...
Spring Blossom (Seize Printemps) – Review
There has been an abundance of movies about young girls and their entanglements with older men. Usually, they are on-screen relationships that leave you feeling uncomfortable; a voyeur of something y...
First Cow- Review
A24 have been responsible for some of the most out-there films over the last few years. I still remember leaving Midsommar and requiring a pint to gather my thoughts on what on Earth I’d just s...
The Man Standing Next – Review
“Men at some time are masters of their fate.” Giving off distinctly Caesar and Brutus vibes is Min-ho Woo’s The Man Standing Next, a semi-fictionalised account of the assassination of South Korean Pr...
Nomadland- Review
Ahh off the grid living. Something so simple yet so amazing when done right. Of course, if you’re currently living off the grid (and somehow managed to find this review) then I am afraid to say...
Shorta – Review
When a film opens with a young black man screaming “I can’t breathe” whilst a police officer presses his knee against the man’s neck, it’s pretty much laying all of its political cards out on the tab...
Black Bear – Review
Cinema has been blurring the lines of fiction versus reality since its inception. In order to be compelling, it has to be believable, right? More than that, it’s been lifting the lid on its own creat...
Father (Otac) – Review
Desperate poverty makes desperate people do desperate things. Srdan Golubovic’s Father makes that clear from it’s shocking opening scenes, wherein a starving, distressed mother pours petrol on hersel...
Riders of Justice – Review
The revenge movie. It tends to follow a pretty bog-standard formula. Something bad happens to a person and – having grieved or recovered (or just gotten angrier) – they embark on a trail of death and...