Miss Viborg – Review
Don’t let the lush colour pops of mauve, sunshine yellow and teal fool you. Marianne Blicher’s feature-length debut, Miss Viborg, is no light-weight comedy. It’s a film about how circumstances and fl...
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Skin Deep (Aus Meiner Haut) – Review
“Is it possible for a body to be inherently happier or unhappier than another body?” asks one of the characters within writer-director Alex Schaad’s feature-length debut, Skin Deep (Aus Meiner Haut)....
God’s Creatures – Review
There is an old stereotype about Irish mammies and their sons. Daughters have to jump through hoops for attention, but the boys can do no wrong. Their halo rarely needs polishing and their dinner pla...
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock – Review
“I’m only going to lie to you once,” says, er, Alfred Hitchcock as he narrates his way through Mark Cousins’ documentary. It’s perfectly expected that a director who loved to toy with his audiences’ ...
Top 10 Films of 2022 – Thomas’s Picks
It’s the most wonderful time of the year yet again. The time for the Moviescramble team to list their top ten films. A yearly tradition that is likely to cause more arguments than when your gre...
Top 10 Films of 2022 – Mary’s Picks
It’s that time of year again when I realise that I have watched absolutely nothing. (If you’ve listened to our podcasts, you’ll also know this to be the case.) You only have to look...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Review
There have been at least twenty four cinematic adaptations of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi’s story of the wooden boy brought to life. Three of these appeared in 2022 alone. Surely, there cannot be any mo...
DIG (Short) – Review
A car parks – badly, across three spaces – in a busy beach car park. The driver seems exhausted, as if mentally bracing herself to get out of the car. As the door opens, empty cans spill ...
The Wonder – Review
Ireland, 1862. The spectre of the Famine looms large over the island. People are starved of hope and haunted by loss. This is the backdrop of Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, based on Emma Donoghue’s bo...
The Menu – Review
Director Mark Mylod is no stranger to poking fun at the entitlement and bad behaviour of the rich. You only have to watch a few episodes of his TV show, Succession, to know that he wants to be both i...