Watcher – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 26, 2022 Reviews Chloe Okuno’s Watcher follows Julia (Maika Monroe) who joins her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Unable to speak the language and stuck at...
Cha Cha Real Smooth – Sundance 2022 Alysha Prasad January 25, 2022 Reviews Writer-director and star of Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, plays Andrew, a recent college graduate who moves back home and begins working as a bar mitzvah party starter. He’s lost until befriending...
Resurrection – Sundance 2022 Alysha Prasad January 25, 2022 Reviews Writer-director Andrew Semans's Resurrection has Rebecca Hall as Margaret leading a successful and balanced life, but this carefully crafted homeostasis is disturbed when she sees an unwelcome presence from...
Fire of Love – Sundance 2022 Alysha Prasad January 25, 2022 Reviews Narrated by the incredible Miranda July, Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love is an ode to the daring French volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who spent their lives chasing volcanic eruptions...
When You Finish Saving the World – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 22, 2022 Reviews Sometimes it’s simply easier to avoid the question “are you happy?”, than to answer it with candour. The highly anticipated directorial debut by Jesse Eisenberg, When You Finish Saving the World, begins...
Cow – Review Alysha Prasad January 14, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Andrea Arnold’s newest film, Cow, documents the daily lives of two cows, Luma and her recently born calf whose...
Titane – Review Alysha Prasad December 24, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Julia Ducournau, French director of the bloody 2016 masterpiece, Raw, graces Cannes Film Festival once more with...
Annette – Review Alysha Prasad November 26, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Green and red. Leos Carax’s rock opera, Annette, features the self-proclaimed “Ape of God” Henry McHenry...
Cryptozoo – Review Alysha Prasad October 24, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Festival coverage. Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo takes viewers on a journey along with cryptozookeepers who set out to...
The French Dispatch – Review Alysha Prasad October 22, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...
Prisoners of the Ghostland – Review Alysha Prasad September 17, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland stars Nicolas Cage as Hero, an infamous bank robber who is sprung...
Censor – Review Alysha Prasad August 20, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “Horror is already out there, in all of us” is the answer in Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, which...
Martyrs Lane – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 19, 2021 Reviews Ruth Platt’s Martyrs Lane centres around 10-year-old Leah (Kiera Thompson) who lives in a bustling vicarage with her family. One day, a spectral child (Sienna Sayer) with feathered wings on her back appears...
The Righteous – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 16, 2021 Reviews The idea of penance is covered in Mark O'Brien’s The Righteous after a former priest, Frederic (Henry Czerny) and his wife, Ethel Mason (Mimi Kuzyk), mourn the loss of their adopted child. When they’re...
Hellbender – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad August 15, 2021 Reviews From the minds of John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughter Zelda Adams, comes Hellbender, a family-focused twist on the usual coming-of-age story, starring Zelda and her sister, Lulu Adams. Lonely,...