If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not
A Private Life review – a limp and convoluted…
The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from
Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,
Diving into the SXSW film line-up
In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps
The Testament of Ann Lee review – expands the…
The story is delivered through the awed narration of Sister Mary Partington (Thomasin McKenzie), which allows us to enjoy the
The Moment review – it’s not that easy being green
On June 7 2024 Charli XCX unleashed a monster. Green, mean and only 41:23 minutes long, ‘brat’ wasn’t just an album – it
RIP Frederick Wiseman – In remembrance of the…
I discovered the work of the American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman through sheer pot lock. I used to work for the
Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up review –…
The Looney Tunes have admittedly fallen on hard times in recent years. As far as animation was concerned, David Zaslav’s
The President’s Cake review – polished but…
Few birthday celebrations can ever match the surreal spectacle that the Iraqi state would enforce each year that Saddam Hussein
Death with Dignity: the documentaries…
“Now that sex is available to us in hardcore porno films, death remains the one last taboo in cinema,” wrote