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The Sámi people have long lived in the Sápmi region, which includes the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia. Until recently, they have farmed reindeer, and fished for their…
This review contains discussion of school shootings, suicide, abuse, and other traumatic events. The opening of Angie Vinchito’s devastating documentary Manifesto presents white clouds rolling across…
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? According to the history books he was either a saviour or a devil, and of course with his involvement in the development of the Atomic bomb he was certainly the embodime…
When the news that Greta Gerwig was going to co-write and direct a movie based on Barbie the collective response appeared to be a baffled “What?” (Whereas the news that Margot Robbie would be playing…
We are all imperfect beings. We all have our negative peccadillos, our bad days, our petty resentments, our self-doubt, our pretentions. In Randall Park’s Shortcomings based on Adrian Tomie’s graphic…
To an extent every biopic is a work of imaginative fiction. What the director and writer choose to include and exclude, the primary focus on the subject, the details that are exaggerated or in part fa…
The set-up is familiar; a group of teens start messing around with an occult object and bad things begin to happen. Despite this being the premise of dozens of possession horror films, Danny and Micha…
Do you ever feel you are sometimes the supporting character in another person’s story? The feeling where your sole purpose is to exist in the orbit of someone other than yourself? Director Sophie Linn…
Carla Simón’s almost neo-realist second feature Alcarràs is an elegy to a dying way of life in Catalonia. It is far from rose tinted although shot with impeccable beauty. A family who relied on the tr…
A good jump scare is like a cheap cheeseburger: the hungrier you are, the better it is. That’s true of the scares in Insidious: The Red Door. However, the fifth entry in this ongoing series is more th…
The New Boy, written and directed by Australian powerhouse Warwick Thornton, tells the story of the unnamed New Boy (Aswan Reid) as he is delivered in a sack to a remote monastery in the dead of night…
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to wade through the distinctly overlong and uneven Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, or MI7. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns after the eve…