The French Dispatch – Review Alysha Prasad October 22, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...
Bergman Island – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 18, 2021 Reviews Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...
The Divide – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 16, 2021 Reviews Catherine Corsini’s The Divide (La Fracture) stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs as Raf and Julie, two women on the verge of a breakup, stuck in a hospital on the night of a major demonstration of...
Returning to Reims – Cannes 2021 Review Lydia Rostant July 15, 2021 Reviews Depicting the complex fabric of society is never an easy task. In his latest film Returning to Reims, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot attempts to coalesce over 80 years of history to tell the story of...
Compartment No. 6 – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 14, 2021 Reviews Adapted from the novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom comes Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6), a film that takes place mostly within the confines of a Russian train. Young Finnish student...
Benedetta – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 12, 2021 Reviews Based on the non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown is Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic, blasphemous, and extremely camp film, Benedetta. In...
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...
Murder Me, Monster – Review Tom Bond December 4, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2018 as part of our Cannes Festival coverage. Argentinian writer-director Alejandro Fadel doesn’t pull any punches in his ghoulish and gory horror, Murder Me,...
The House that Jack Built – Review Tom Bond December 18, 2018 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage on 16/05/2018. Lars Von Trier is back with The House that Jack Built, a 150-minute grotesque epic going deep inside the mind...
BlacKkKlansman – Review Tom Bond August 25, 2018 Reviews In 2012, when Obama was president and racism in America seemed to be fading, Django Unchained featured a notorious scene with the Ku Klux Klan. Squabbling about eyeholes and spare bags, the white supremacist...
The House that Jack Built – Cannes 2018 Review Tom Bond May 16, 2018 Reviews Lars Von Trier is back with The House that Jack Built, a 150-minute grotesque epic going deep inside the mind of a serial killer. Does it confirm his genius and justify his provocations or is it the...
BlacKkKlansman – Cannes 2018 Review Tom Bond May 15, 2018 Reviews In 2012, when Obama was president and racism in America seemed to be fading, Django Unchained featured a notorious scene with the Ku Klux Klan. Squabbling about eyeholes and spare bags, the white supremacist...
Happy as Lazzaro – Cannes 2018 Review Tom Bond May 14, 2018 Reviews Alice Rohrwacher’s gentle domestic comedy, Happy as Lazzaro, is a hard film to define. It’s full of grim social realism, light conversational comedy, and surreal jumps in time that warp reality to make...
The Beguiled – Review Tom Bond July 14, 2017 Reviews Colin Farrell fucks his way to freedom in this intoxicating remake of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood’s 1971 Southern Gothic. Sofia Coppola’s version is faithful to the original, but adopts a more restrained...