Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
It’s painful to watch. It should be painful. 20 DAYS AT MARIUPOL is a conscience stricken, gut wrenching, painful experience, a necessary bearing of witness to war.
When Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ on 24 February 2022, Associated …
In this scam riddled world, BLAGA’S LESSONS comes as a cautionary and sobering story.
Blaga is a recently widowed woman, a retired teacher determined to give her late husband a good grave and headstone.
Ostensibly sensible and astute, she is …
Clever, mischievous and surprising, THE FETISHIST is a novel to relish.
Immensely seductive and hugely entertaining, here is life – the stupid and weird and precarious- in a novel that dazzlingly explores obsession, fixation and the condition of attachment.
THE …
The gift of a good script is matched by the unwrapping of that gift by a talented director and cast. That’s certainly the case with SHITTY, a trilogy of terror scaring up a superb theatrical thrill in the Belvoir Basement.…
In regards to Todd Haynes’ latest film, MAY DECEMBER, the use of the score to The Go Between by Michel Legrand is proving to be as contentious as the subject matter of a cougar grooming a cub for inter-generational carnality.…
The migrant experience is given gentle, thoughtful realisation in RICEBOY SLEEPS, a slow burn story of a single mother trying to survive in an alien environment.
Following her boyfriend’s suicide and the birth of their son, Dong-hyun, So-young flees South …
So many films out there offering crumbs of quality, finally the craving for caviar is sated with the arrival of ANATOMY OF A FALL. This film is an elevation of the whodunit to peak perfection.
For the past year, Sandra, …
Is it a dream?
ALL OF US STRANGERS has a dream like quality, a reverie of nostalgia, an aching yearning permeating the narrative.
Andrew Scott plays Adam, living in a London tower block struggling with writer’s block, inspiration stagnant, imagination …
It’s a case of kissin’ cousins twice removed.
Sofia Coppola’s bio pic, PRISCILLA, focuses on Priscilla Presley who, at one time, was sort of related. For a short period, Sofia’s cousin, Nicolas Cage, was Priscilla’s son in law.
The events …
The opening sequence of IRON CLAW grabs like, well, an iron claw. Shot in glorious black and white, it encapsulates the trajectory of the narrative that plays out during the rest of the film.
The Iron Claw alludes to a …