Only The River Flows – Review
The 1990s in China was a period of extreme flux. As state-owned businesses and structures began to disintegrate, unemployment and corruption began to seep in. Many eagerly embraced the rise of consum...
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Cold (Kuldi) – Review
“Scandi noir” feels like it’s been around forever. Viewers and readers alike indulge in tales of bitter winters, detectives who are seen as outsiders or unorthodox, grisly murder scenes and thick, co...
The Teacher – Review
It is timely that writer / director Farah Nabulsi should make her feature-length debut on the festival circuit. Her Oscar-nominated short, The Present, focuses on the seemingly impossible act of buyi...
The Vourdalak – Review
There cannot be too much left to do with the horror sub-genre that is the vampire film. We’ve had sparkly ones, sinister ones, bloodthirsty ones and erotic ones. We’ve had films that are genuinely te...
We Have Never Been Modern (Úsvit) – Review
It can be slightly unnerving when a film character decides to stare deeply into the eyes of their audience. We don’t usually anticipate being made complicit in whatever is unfolding on screen. And ye...
The Dead Don’t Hurt – Review
The first Western movie is said to date back to 1894, a single reel silent film that pre-dates the “golden era of Western” by almost fifty years. When you think of the genre, you think of the geograp...
The Teachers’ Lounge – Review
This review contains spoilers At school, it did always seem like the teachers’ lounge was a place of mystery. Only if you were handing something in or waiting to speak to someone did you catch a glim...
Io Capitano – Review
Italian director Matteo Garrone is perhaps best known as the man behind 2008’s Gomorra, taking viewers deep into the brutal undertakings of the Neapolitan mafia in their stronghold of Scampia Vele. ...
Mr. & Mrs. Stodola – Review
We’ve all become a bit obsessed with true crime in the last few years. There are countless podcasts, documentaries, interviews, books to satiate our taste for the macabre. Are you even a true crime f...
The G – Review
This review contains spoilers. They say that revenge is a dish best served cold. But nobody ever said anything about it being grandma doing the serving. In an unusual spin on the classic revenge dram...