On the Divide – Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 Review Sophie Maxwell March 29, 2022 Reviews In the small city of McAllen, Texas, a human rights battle is waged in close quarters. On the Divide follows Denisse, Rey, and Mercedes, three people whose lives have been touched deeply by the politics of...
The 8th – Review Sophie Maxwell May 21, 2021 Reviews The 8th is titled after Ireland’s Eighth Amendment to the constitution, that in 1983 gave equal right to life to both a pregnant woman and the vaguely termed ‘unborn’. This documentary follows a group of...
The Tribe – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 25, 2014 Reviews Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s audacious feature debut masters visual storytelling without a single utterance. Told solely through sign language, and containing no spoken dialogue or subtitles, The Tribe breeds...
Obvious Child – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Have you ever been to one of those stand-up gigs where the comedian succeeds through sheer force of personality? That’s Obvious Child, and its lead, Jenny Slate. The story is insubstantial and the humour...