The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Review
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...
The Tale – Sundance London 2018 Review
The Tale is a spiralling and endlessly fascinating work. Non-fiction filmmaker Jennifer Fox applies her documentarian’s eye to her own childhood, peeling back onion-like layers of memory and teasingly...
Never Goin’ Back – Sundance London 2018 Review
Never Goin’ Back takes a sitcom-esque premise and actually shapes it into a viable movie. Unlike many similar ventures it does have enough narrative material to work with, but it’s an awkward...
The Miseducation of Cameron Post and the Trauma of Gay Conversion Therapy – Review
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...
Half the Picture – Sundance London 2018 Review
Formally, Half the Picture isn’t a revolutionary piece of documentary filmmaking, but it doesn’t need to be. Amy Adrion responds to an extremely relevant and inflammatory issue with urgency and fierce...
Skate Kitchen – Sundance London 2018 Review
Skate Kitchen is a fantastically evocative low-key tale of a teenage girl’s coming of age within the skate subculture of New York City. Of course, this subject matter recalls Drew Barrymore’s Ellen...