Reviews

“In Hindu custom, it is ritually prescribed that a son must perform his father’s last rites.” This sentence hangs on the screen, setting up for the rest of Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, a film that...

“I want to lead an important life, I want to do it because I was born a human being.” This powerful line from The Five Rules of Success by writer-director Orson Oblowitz perfectly encompasses the point of...

“As long as someone’s alive, there is always hope.” During the Cold War in 1962, Taiwan was under martial law, where those who subverted the government by speaking out about freedom or reading banned...

If there’s one thing Christopher Nolan loves, it's spectacle. And chaos. And headaches. Okay, so there are several things that Nolan is passionate about, and they’re all very much present in Tenet....

By now, everyone has surely seen Pepe the Frog at least once, whether it be whilst scrolling innocently through the web or even stumbling upon it on the news or late night talk shows. What most people aren’t...

Barry (Gary Green), an abusive drug-addict, is on yet another bender after an argument with his wife. After shooting up, he walks home down fog covered streets that have been overtaken by a haunting red hue,...

Sócrates opens with a death, or rather a specific moment after that death. An abrupt cut shows us, in closeup, a woman laid on her back, eyes closed, with someone else’s hand touching her forehead and...

Ava opens with a scene we can all recognise: a mother dropping off her daughter at school, the daughter complaining of embarrassment, the mother fussing over lunch and safety. But here, this comfortable...

The very idea that human beings may one day be rendered obsolete by improving technology is a hard concept to swallow. Sofian Khan’s short film, Doppelbänger, transports us into the future, where there...

What’s scarier than a satanic cult? A men’s rights group. Mariel Sharp and Kaye Adelaide, directors and producers, present Don’t Text Back, a horror short made by a group of women and LGBTQ+ artists....

There is hardly a niche in the market for comedies about teens having a hard time in high school – Netflix pretty much has that side of the film industry covered. We know the drill: rumours fly and spread...

Why can’t we just have different opinions and be nice about it? Femke Boot (Katja Herbers), a columnist, author, and single mother, begins receiving death threats and horrid comments on social media...

What, really, can be called authentic in a time of social media personas and rampant reality television? For Kurt Kunkle, it’s live-streaming The Lesson, a twisted mission acted out as a Spree driver, a taxi...

No one who was a part of the first Evil Dead film could have imagined that it would turn into the franchise it is today, nor that the popularity of the films would just continue to grow over time. Steve...

Kana Yamada’s directorial debut, Life: Untitled, begins with a jarring opening where the viewer is addressed directly by a young woman standing there without a shirt, and is asked, “is my life worth...