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Mismatched grieving, hypothetical futures, confrontations, pursuing perfection and jazz in a coup d'etat. This week I watched... A Real...

Strippers and Russian Oligarchs, the good and bad Harmony Korines, a Cillian Murphy mastersclass, the lasting effects of colonialism and...

A collection of vignettes, Angelina Jolie sings opera, confronting tragedy in Canada, and a classic from Franco-era Spain. Here's what I...

So here's a new thing I'm doing that will summarise the highlights, lowlights and well, midlights of my movie-watching weeks. Instead of...

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

For many years, whether intentional or not, film and TV have painted the trans community in overwhelmingly negative ways. Whether they...

Very rarely do significant cultural events come along and provide the perfect collage of art, political, social, cultural and racial...

Dark Days follows a close-knit homeless community who have managed to make the most of an abandoned Amtrak tunnel underneath the hustle...

Gunda wants to challenge your perception of the animals that most commonly feed us. It doesn't want to be a piece of vegan propaganda...

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness is a peculiar little film. It’s both epic and highly intimate on a spiritual level, spanning over three...

Notturno starts off with a bit of context. We are briefly told how the modern conflicts and problems in The Middle East came about....

2020 was filled with films and TV shows that allowed us to escape the confines of lockdowns and other restrictions all thanks to the...

Florida’s retiree population is huge. In a 2018 census, an estimated 4.9 million people are retirees, and in The Villages, America’s...

Oscar is a Sicilian native who spends his days under the hot Sicilian sun, scouring the landscape for scrap metal with his brother and...

Original Review Date: 7 October 2020 What makes a documentary a documentary? Is it on the basis that what is being documented and...

Original Review Date: 20 October 2020 2020 has been challenging to say the least. Right now, more than ever, we have been finding ways to...

Original Review Date: 18 August 2020 Boys State (2020) is a documentary that takes place in Texas where an exercise in local and...

Original Review Date: 22 July 2020 Arthur Agee and William Gates were young inner-city kids from Chicago filled with dreams and...

Original Review Date: 11 June 2020 Seeing as it is Pride Month, I think it’s a good time to talk a little about one of my favourite...