Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Kristoffer Borgli makes mind boggling pictures. His last film was Dream Scenario, the cancel culture feature that delivered a fantastic performance from Nicolas Cage.
His latest movie, THE DRAMA, lives up to its title in spades.
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson …
A shot of boats wending their way through Mesopotamian marshlands as two fighter jets scream into frame begins the bittersweet odyssey that is THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE. It’s a striking image to a strikingly affecting film.
The Mesopotamian marshes …
Francesca is away with the fairies. Fran, in short, is, in short, off her tree. The Magic Faraway Tree.
Adapted from the beloved The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE follows Polly and Tim and …
Who owns our days?
This is the question that the soon to be retired President of Italy grapples with in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest political parable, LA GRAZIA.
Nearing the end of his presidency, Mariano De Santis, procrastinates over the signing …
THE PLAGUE is about the pestilence of persistent and prevailing bullying, that stubborn stain of the human condition.
The film opens with a shot of a pool stand, the calm, still waters belying the coming storm. One by one, the …
A monster mash, THE BRIDE is a sprawling wink, nod and smile to Universal creature features, MGM musicals and Warner Brothers crime dramas.
As we are told on opening title card, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a dare and Maggie …
A winning title, HOW TO DRESS FOR OLD AGE follows through as a triumphant text exploring and navigating the emotional terrain of adult children caring for their ageing parents.
The emotional and intellectual labour of late life care for an …
The wistful Emily Wells song, My San Francisco, plays over the end titles of Carmen Emmi’s Sundance award-winning thriller PLAINCLOTHES, a plaintive song to end Emmi’s My Own Private Idaho influence.
Set in 1990s Syracuse, PLAINCLOTHES follows Lucas, a promising …
The composer couldn’t care less about posterity. Well, bordel de merde, Maestro Michel Legrand, posterity cares very much for your contribution to music and cinema and the fabulous documentary, ONCE UPON A TIME MICHEL LEGRAND illustrates that legacy.
“I …
Sweet as cassata, SOLO MIO is a rom com for the mature age that follows Matt Taylor (Kevin James), an earnest fifty something elementary school art teacher whose dream Italian wedding falls apart when his fiancée abandons him at the …