Lingui – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 12, 2021 Reviews Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui tells the story of Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), a practising Muslim in Chad, and her 15-year-old daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio). When Amina learns that her...
After Yang – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 12, 2021 Reviews Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), and their youngest, Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), make up a family that exists in the future, a family completed only by Yang (Justin H. Min), an android...
Jumbo – Review Alysha Prasad July 10, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our Nightstream Film Festival coverage. The surrealism within Zoé Wittock’s Jumbo is apparent from the very first scene, opening with blinding...
Freaky – Review Alysha Prasad July 1, 2021 Reviews Blumhouse’s latest horror-comedy, Freaky, from director Christopher Landon, is a new take on the body swap genre. As if high school wasn’t hard enough for the not-so-popular senior, Millie (Kathryn...
Land – Review Alysha Prasad June 4, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Festival coverage. Robin Wright’s directorial debut, Land, takes viewers on the journey of healing. Grief is something so...
Fried Barry – Review Alysha Prasad May 8, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in August 2020 as part of our Fantasia Festival coverage. Barry (Gary Green), an abusive drug-addict, is on yet another bender after an argument with his wife. After...
Love and Monsters – Review Alysha Prasad April 16, 2021 Reviews “... But then the world ended...” narrates Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien) from the comfort of his colony, which is one of the many bunkers that humanity has since escaped to after monsters drove everyone...
Slaxx – Review Alysha Prasad March 16, 2021 Reviews “Small price to pay for an awesome ass,” are the famous last words in this film. From writer-director Elza Kephart comes Shudder’s Slaxx, a campy horror comedy about a possessed pair of jeans that come...
The Columnist – Review Alysha Prasad March 12, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in August 2020 as part of our Fantasia Festival coverage. Why can’t we just have different opinions and be nice about it? Femke Boot (Katja Herbers), a columnist, author,...
Judas and the Black Messiah – Review Alysha Prasad March 11, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Shaka King’s highly anticipated Judas and the Black Messiah takes us back to 1968 in Chicago, Illinois....
Lucky – Review Alysha Prasad March 4, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our coverage for Nightstream Film Festival. “You’re very lucky,” is the belittling phrase used throughout Natasha Kermani’s film, Lucky,...
Marvelous and the Black Hole – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad February 2, 2021 Reviews Kate Tsang’s Marvelous and the Black Hole follows troubled teenager Sammy Ko (Miya Cech) who is struggling to cope with the death of her mother. After being forced by her father (Leonardo Nam) to enrol in a...
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad February 1, 2021 Reviews What would it feel like to be transported into a horror movie? Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair introduces us to an online role-playing horror game that’s gone viral. Teenager...
Mayday – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad February 1, 2021 Reviews A terrifying storm sets the events of Karen Cinorre’s Mayday into motion after a short circuit occurs at Ana’s (Grace Van Patten) workplace, transporting her into an alternate world where she meets a group...
Superior – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad January 31, 2021 Reviews Shot on 16mm film is Erin Vassilopoulos’ feature, Superior, transporting viewers back to the Eighties through incredibly stylish sets and costume designs. We are introduced to Marian (Alessandra Mesa) as she...