Author Kambole Campbell

Isao Takahata’s most lauded and well-recognised work that brought Studio Ghibli acclaim on an international level, Grave of the Fireflies, turned 30 years old this Monday in the wake of the Studio Ghibli...

https://vimeo.com/261025185 Packing a lot of incisive commentary on both social media and the debilitating grind of corporate culture into a funny, breezy 12 minutes, UK filmmaker Will Anderson’s...

Like a refraction of Ex Machina’s interrogation of artificial intelligence, Alex Garland’s Annihilation asks similar questions about humanity’s impulse towards self-destruction, through images that are...

This film was previously reviewed on 15/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Perhaps the most exciting thing about Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited thriller You Were Never Really Here is just how full of...

Despite its daring combination of the aesthetic of found footage movies with a proud 00s cinema tradition, the body swap comedy, High Fantasy feels like a missed opportunity. For the most part the comedic...

The documentaries on display at Berlinale this year all have had an intimate, personal connection between the filmmaker and subject matter, and The Son is no different. Alexander Abaturov’s piece on the...

This review was originally published as part of our Berlin International Film Festival coverage on 24/02/2018. Beguiling and bewildering from the very opening, in which lead character Madeline is shown to...

Another in a long line of films about put-upon filmmakers, Mani Haghighi's Pig attempts to mix up the formula with wild tonal shifts and surreal comedy with varying levels of success. Pig's focus is...

Not unlike the wonderful Paris is Burning, Leilah Weinraub’s lo-fi, kickstarter-backed documentary Shakedown looks at the life of an institution founded and run by a group of marginalised people. The...

Of all the thriller directors that Liam Neeson has worked with in his latter day reinvention as an action movie star, Jaume Collet-Serra probably knows best how to tap into Neeson’s presence. In The...

One of the best moments in Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes early on. During one of many desperate, skin-of-their teeth escapes, victory or death for the Resistance (the new moniker for the Rebel Alliance) ...

Spoilers ahead. This isn’t the best made film on the list. Just to get the acknowledgement out of the way early – Get Out is Jordan Peele’s first solo film as writer and director, and it occasionally...

While it is indeed a Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi is unmistakably Rian Johnson's work. The stakes are smaller and more tangible than in The Force Awakens - this is more about the emotional toll that war...

This was originally reviewed on 09/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Takashi Miike’s 100th film Blade of the Immortal is concrete proof that the director has no intentions of slowing down. The usual...

This was first reviewed on 16/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Despite its proficiency in inspiring emotion, Jane can at points feel like it’s a little lacking in depth. There are countless details...