Love Lies Bleeding – Review
This review contains mild spoilers If you watched Rose Glass’s debut, Saint Maud, there’s a strong chance you left the cinema in a state of shock and disorientation. Striking in its visuals and bolst...
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The Holdovers – Review
A curmudgeonly teacher with hints of tragic past; a spoiled little rich kid who is left behind by his new stepfather; a grieving mother who cannot comprehend life without her son. These are cinematic...
Occupied City – Review
A middle-aged man sits quietly on his balcony, eyes closed, soaking up the sun. Two teenagers sing The Corrs’ Breathless into their phones. Skaters gather on a frozen canal. Whistles, bells and drums...
Cassandro – Review
In the Venn Diagram of ultra masculine Mexican luchadors and sparkly, perfomative “camp”, you can’t imagine there would be much crossover. The middle space would be non-existent. And yet, Roger Ross ...
The Killer – Review
David Fincher’s latest thriller, The Killer, is probably the antithesis of what many have come to anticipate from the “hitman’s revenge” kind of film. It is still; it defies its own mantras about not...
Cobweb – Review
There can’t be too much left unexplored in contemporary horror. The creature feature. The alienated, eccentric child. The mother of a nervous disposition. The house that creaks at night. The mysterio...
The Boy and The Herron – Review
Nothing quite gets an audience as excited as a new Studio Ghibli film does, especially when Hayao Miyazaki is the Director attached. From such classics of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle, the ...
The Thief Collector – Review
A middle-aged couple with a penchant for exotic holidays. Cliff, New Mexico. One of the most brazen art thefts in recent decades. A collection of self-published short stories revealing a potentially ...
Rotting in the Sun – Review
Warning – This review contains major spoilers for Rotting in the Sun If Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent taught us anything, it’s that we love actors playing hyper stylised vers...
Corpus Christi – Review
“You know what we’re good at? Giving up on people. Pointing the finger at them. To forgive doesn’t mean to forget. Forgive means love. To love someone despite their guilt. No matter what the guilt is...