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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...

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

Monday is Greek director Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ fourth feature-length, his follow-up to his most well-received film Suntan (2016). It...

The close-knit and constant inside joke-ness of Jewish communities and traditions are a gold mine for comedic and personal insight....

TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater plays over a blurry shot slowly coming into focus. The title Violation appears with the...

Hirokazu Kore-eda is a filmmaker who has a wonderful knack for exploring family dynamics and themes that somehow always feels relevant,...

Nobody, a film penned by John Wick creator and writer Derek Kolstad, manages to subvert the try-hard attitude of that franchise and...

Few films break me these days quite like The Father did. It devastates and frightens in equal measure, offering an entirely new and...

The first John Wick was fine. It was fun, simple in its plot and emphasized the action to great effect. It was just about a grieving...

Anthony Scott Burns' second feature-length is a sci-fi horror that blends deep internal fears with the dangers (and benefits) of...

Beginning is a slow burner, a tragedy of biblical proportions as we follow a woman grappling with the ideals of her faith, community,...

Original Review Date: 22 June 2020 I don’t normally talk about video games, but I have to discuss what I just experienced with The Last...

Original Review Date: 4 March 2020 This century has given us some of the greatest on screen LGBTQ love stories. Brokeback Mountain, Call...

Original Review Date: 15 February 2020 The Safdie Brothers are among the freshest, most creative and boldest young filmmakers currently...