MOVIE

Below The Clouds – first-look review

If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,…

1 year ago

In the Hand of Dante – first-look review

In his narrative poem ​‘The Divine Comedy’, accepted to have been written between 1308 and 1321 and widely considered to…

1 year ago

The Wizard of the Kremlin – first-look review

The loudest reaction during both press screenings of Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin at the Venice Film Festival happened…

1 year ago

Bugonia – first-look review | Little White Lies

Although Lanthimos has moved away from the stilted hyper-stylised hallmarks which announced him to the filmmaking world at large, his…

1 year ago

The Life Of Chuck review – soliloquy soup

This year Mike Flanagan, known best for turning horror’s greatest novels into palatable limited television series for Netflix, is switching…

1 year ago

The extreme vulnerability of Joaquin Phoenix

Looking at his last four projects, it seems that Phoenix perfected his precise working formula – hyper-ambitious, complex-to-realise films from…

1 year ago

Sorry, Baby review – a film about holding on to…

Something very bad happened to Agnes. It’s hinted at in the first segment of Sorry, Baby, when her best friend Lydie…

1 year ago

My Grandmother Trelotótó review – a world of…

Hoping to resurrect her late grandmother, Júlia, Catarina Ruivo combines family archives with rich visuals in a non-fiction film which successfully…

1 year ago

Unmoored review – jars its own style

A huge sigh releases from deep within Maria (Mirja Turestedt) as she is greeted by a mob of photographers and journalists…

1 year ago

Weapons review – fun but familiar horror hijinks

If you’ve been to the cinema in the past few months, specifically to watch a horror film, you might have seen…

1 year ago