Author Rhys Handley

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/246729336 One of the key pillars of postmodernist thinking is that there is no longer such thing as an original idea. We have too much culture and too much art, now it...

In 2017, differences of perspective mutated into an aggressive disruption of common truth. Facts are no longer sacred in societal discourse, meaning philosophical debate is now often a battle over the...

This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Imagine getting to make a Star Wars movie. Imagine the millions upon millions of dollars Lucasfilm would leave in your lap. Imagine the stellar...

Every sequel ever made is royally screwed. Those poor filmmakers can go back to their hit movies with the purest intentions and the best bundle of influences, but how many second instalments can really hold a...

Hi, my name is Rhys and I love Every Frame a Painting. The act of watching film is instinctive. You can’t often tell why you like a movie, your gut just knows that you do. There’s something about it...

Imagine a film no one really wanted, fronted by an enigmatic auteur with a questionable past whose name is all over the credits as producer, director, lead star, etc. A match made in heaven (or San Francisco),...

Originally a multi-screen installation for exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Manifesto belongs more to Cate Blanchett than to director Julian Rosefeldt. Split into thirteen segments,...

https://vimeo.com/233685439 A community drifting apart can feel like the end of the world. This is usually an illusion in the mind. In Mounia Akl’s award-winning short, the decomposition of the...

When Martin Scorsese was on a streak with his muse Robert De Niro in the 1970s and 1980s, they gave us characters who would leap from the screen in a flurry of violence and rage. Paragons of toxic, unimpeded...

Parenting - good or bad, present or not - permeates all lives. Children’s worlds are built on the foundations of the early teachings of mothers, fathers, and carers. Even when its effects move to the...

To call Italian impresario Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash (2015) a remake of La Piscine, Jacques Deray’s 1969 romantic thriller, would certainly be a faux pas. Built on the same narrative foundations...

In the fourth film made under his 20-year ban from the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi continues to audaciously fly in the face of his home country’s demands. Opening on an unnerving cameraphone recording...

Who dares to face down Malcolm Tucker? By 2009, Peter Capaldi’s tartan terror had been blazing through the halls of Westminster for four years – obliterating all who unknowingly stumbled into his path. His...

Portuguese directing duo João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora have crafted in The Dead and the Others an incredibly evocative piece of cinema – almost too much so for its own good. The film is the...

It’s always weird going back to the beginning. So many great directors seem to arrive fully-formed, but that’s usually because by the time they break out and hit the spotlight, they already have a solid...