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It’s impossible to predict the rhythm and anarchic, punk rock nature of a Radu Jude film. They’re often strung together by common themes...

Just where do you start when talking about The Zone of Interest, the newest film by the far too elusive Jonathan Glazer (only his fourth...

Picture it: A John Wayne-type is protecting a picture-perfect blonde-haired, blue-eyed family on the prairie. Their caravan is surrounded...

Fate, destiny, providence. This is inyeon, a Korean philosphy. If strangers walk in the street and their clothes brush one another, it...

Spanning over a few decades, The Eight Mountains is an intimate epic about friendship, the ones we take for granted and how both the loss...

Barbie fever is in full tilt. It’s not just among those who grew up playing with and idolizing their favourite figurine who are excited,...

Beau is Afraid has been described a number of things by critics and audiences alike, but Writer/Director Ari Aster has described Beau is...

Armed with a wad of tissues and fully preparing myself to sob in front of a room of people and my partner (who claims I have a heart of...

The older we get, our worldview, our priorities and sometimes our very nature change. It gradually happens whether we like it or not....

It’s been a while since my last review. My phone is filled with notes on every film I have seen since my last review - the anxiety...

It’s hard to not get completely swept up in the immediate euphoria of a franchise film that doesn’t suck, especially when it’s derived...

Looking back, our years at school are often met with either of these two things: nostalgia in reliving the peak years of your life (oof),...

Men has had a lot of buzz swarming around it. Your snooty film friends would shout “It’s Alex Garland!”, as they spew crumbs all over you...

Ti West’s return to the horror genre is his best work yet - creating a voyeuristic slasher that not only amplifies his strengths but...

In this day and age, it really is a mammoth task to be able to provide a true family film that is actually for the entire family. These...

Café owner Kato (Kazunari Tosa) discovers that the computer monitor in his upstairs apartment sees two minutes into the future, while the...

Radu Jude often is a filmmaker that has no interest in masking his anger and frustrations with nuance and delicately crafted metaphors...

Right now, I feel that we are in a golden age of documentary filmmaking. Not only are filmmakers consistently finding interesting new...

Delicate isn’t a word one would ever describe the Western genre. It’s a uniquely American genre that would prioritize and idolize the...

“Oscar-winner” this and “Oscar-nominee” that, the trailers for House of Gucci are shameless in their Oscar-baiting, with its campaign...