A Love Song – Review Alysha Prasad December 9, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in January 2022 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature, A Love Song, centres around two childhood sweethearts, Faye (Dale...
Emily the Criminal – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 30, 2022 Reviews If you’re going to be treated like a criminal, you might as well become a criminal. John Patton Ford’s indie thriller, Emily the Criminal, stars Aubrey Plaza as Emily, a woman drowning in student debt who...
AM I OK? – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 29, 2022 Reviews Directors Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro have brought to life the true story of friendship between producer Jessica Elbaum and writer Lauren Pomerantz in their debut feature, AM I OK?. Jane (Sonoya Mizuno)...
Speak No Evil – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 29, 2022 Reviews Christian Tafdrup’s first ever horror film, Speak No Evil, follows a Danish family who befriend a fellow travelling Dutch family while on holiday and are subsequently invited to the Netherlands for a weekend...
Dual – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 26, 2022 Reviews Riley Stearns’ Dual introduces us to a world that is, for all intents and purposes, just like ours, except for one major difference: a cloning service called Replacement. After being diagnosed with a rare...
You Won’t Be Alone – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 26, 2022 Reviews Set in an isolated village in 19th-century Macedonia, writer-director Goran Stolevski's debut feature You Won’t Be Alone sees a young girl taken from her mother and transformed into a witch by an ancient...
FRESH – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 26, 2022 Reviews Mimi Cave’s debut film FRESH shows the jaded Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) scrolling through an endless sea of faces on dating apps and sitting through a mind-numbing first date, but just when all hope seems lost,...
Watcher – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 26, 2022 Reviews Chloe Okuno’s Watcher follows Julia (Maika Monroe) who joins her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Unable to speak the language and stuck at...
Cha Cha Real Smooth – Sundance 2022 Alysha Prasad January 25, 2022 Reviews Writer-director and star of Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, plays Andrew, a recent college graduate who moves back home and begins working as a bar mitzvah party starter. He’s lost until befriending...
Resurrection – Sundance 2022 Alysha Prasad January 25, 2022 Reviews Writer-director Andrew Semans's Resurrection has Rebecca Hall as Margaret leading a successful and balanced life, but this carefully crafted homeostasis is disturbed when she sees an unwelcome presence from...
Fire of Love – Sundance 2022 Alysha Prasad January 25, 2022 Reviews Narrated by the incredible Miranda July, Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love is an ode to the daring French volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who spent their lives chasing volcanic eruptions...
When You Finish Saving the World – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 22, 2022 Reviews Sometimes it’s simply easier to avoid the question “are you happy?”, than to answer it with candour. The highly anticipated directorial debut by Jesse Eisenberg, When You Finish Saving the World, begins...