Shadow in the Cloud – TIFF 2020 Review Rafaela Sales Ross September 20, 2020 Reviews It's hard to discuss Shadow in the Cloud without giving it all away. On the surface, this is the story of a female WWII pilot who mysteriously embarks a plane seconds before its take off, with nothing but a...
Greta – Review Phil W. Bayles April 18, 2019 Reviews Neil Jordan's last film, the underrated vampire tale Byzantium, focused on an unconventional mother-daughter relationship to riveting effect. Now he returns to the same well for Greta, albeit with mixed...
Suspiria – Review Jack Blackwell November 16, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 02/09/18 as part of Venice Film Festival. Suspiria is not a film to have mild feelings about. Like Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, Luca Guadagnino’s remake/reimagining...
The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Review Kambole Campbell September 7, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 31/05/18 as part of the Sundance London Film Festival. A montage of flailing attempts to ‘diagnose’ homosexuality is only the beginning of the fun that Desiree...
Suspiria – Venice 2018 Review Jack Blackwell September 2, 2018 Reviews Suspiria is not a film to have mild feelings about. Like Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, Luca Guadagnino’s remake/reimagining arrives in Venice as a work of gonzo, philosophically minded horror that all but...
The Miseducation of Cameron Post and the Trauma of Gay Conversion Therapy – Review Kambole Campbell May 31, 2018 Reviews A montage of flailing attempts to ‘diagnose’ homosexuality is only the beginning of the fun that Desiree Akhavan has with the cluelessness of conversion therapy in her sophomore feature The Miseducation of...
Your Week In Film: Remakes, Reunions, Revelations, Repetition and Repetition! Stephen O'Nion October 7, 2016 News 1. Chloë Grace Moretz drops that whole hiatus thing, signs on for Suspiria remake It was only a few weeks ago that Chloë Grace Moretz told The Hollywood Reporter that she was taking some time off to...
Bad Neighbours 2 – Review Naomi Soanes May 8, 2016 Reviews Fear not – Bad Neighbours 2 is fresh, funny and, as with any Seth Rogen film, it sports a lot of weed-related shenanigans. What’s not to enjoy? There were concerns that, as with most comedy sequels, the...
Spotlight: Chloë Grace Moretz Phil W. Bayles January 21, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Though she’s been acting for nearly a decade, and doing it very well, Chloë Grace Moretz has always felt like an actor dancing around the edges of stardom. She’s consistently proven herself to be a...
Clouds of Sils Maria – Review Rachel Brook May 16, 2015 Reviews 1 Comment Like an unassuming and subtler Birdman, Clouds of Sils Maria takes advantage of its actor protagonist Maria (Binoche) in order to probe a potential overlap between fiction and reality. A dawdling...
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Review Stephen O'Nion March 22, 2015 Reviews 2 Comments Princess Kaguya is beautiful, and that presents a problem: our protagonist has her life planned, wrapped and presented to everyone else, her restless energy and passion gradually receding into the darker...
Say When – Review Rachel Brook November 4, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Kitschy and tediously drawn-out home video credits give way to a humorous portrait of arrested development in the vein of Frances Ha and Drifters. While stylistically closer to the latter, Say When’s...
The Equalizer – Review Ben Murphie September 30, 2014 Reviews The Equalizer is nothing more than a sluggish and disappointing mess. Washington’s poorly-sketched ex-special ops agent juggles with several underdeveloped themes that bar him from any meaningful character...
If I Stay – Review Rachel Brook August 30, 2014 Reviews Heavily infused with music and relying on a flashback format, Forman’s novel seems ideal for the audio-visual medium of film. Yet Cutler’s unenergetic debut betrays the influence of the Nicholas...