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“Some crossings cost you your whole life,” is a line from a play by Nora Moon (Greta Lee) an immigrant from South Korea now living in New York City via Canada. Leaving Seoul when she was twelve in 200…
Ah, theater kids… you gotta love ‘em, right? If you do love them Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s Theater Camp is for you. If you don’t love them Theater Camp is also for you. Extending their short f…
Marketing people know what’s up when they pitched Strays as coming from the studio that brought you Ted and Cocaine Bear instead of the director of the gloriously side-splitting Barb and Star Go to Vi…
“This is the only thing that is real,” says Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) to Hal (Christopher Abbott) in Zachary Wigon’s psychosexual thriller and melodrama, Sanctuary. There is a world outside our two p…
This review contains mention of sexual assault, gaslighting, and toxic masculinity. It’s no mistake that Jack Clark and Jim Weir have a visual cue in the form of a Wake in Fright poster in the backgr…
“It’s a dangerous business,” says the permanently aggressive Cleve, a hairdresser competing in a regional competition. Thomas Hardiman’s high camp debut feature Medusa Deluxe starts with horrors insid…
It could be argued The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s metatextual cinema amour to The New Yorker was perhaps the pinnacle of the Texan director’s affair with art and authorship. Where was the fantast…
Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with…
Passages screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 5 and 18. Ira Sachs’ Paris set queer melodrama evokes the work of Xavier Dolan, queer people can be imperfect and self-obsessed…
Documentarian and musician Anna Hints’s Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a journey into the psyche of women as they experience a unique cleansing and renewal in an Estonian Sauna. Nadine Whitney was given th…
When Jennifer Reeder takes you by the hand you are guided into a universe where mascara runs like blood, teenage girls wear glitter and sequins like armour, and the strange world of being young can be…
Kim Albright’s surreal alternate universe in With Love and A Major Organ is uncannily close to our own – so much so that the parallels it draws with modern loneliness leave an ache as one watches it u…