The North is a beautiful decree for digital detoxification
Bart Schrijver’s film The North begins with an earnest proclamation: ‘The trail is best enjoyed without your phone. Please turn it off.’…
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Star Wars returns to the big-screen with The Mandalorian and Grogu, an exercise in galactic-scale entropy
The Mandalorian and Grogu makes the biggest cardinal sin of all: scamming its viewership into believing they are making entertainment when these parts of Star Wars are nothing more than a piece of capital, packaged and designed to make more toys, plushies, and general merchandise.…
Visconti’s lonely dreamers in Le Notti Bianche featured at Cinema Reborn
Le Notti Bianche is a stunningly beautiful story of yearning and loving beyond what outsiders would deem reasonable.…
Mother Mary is an immersive and fascinating art haunting
Mother Mary is depending on metaphors to express how an essential creative act and bond can never be fully explained, nor can it be completely abandoned.…
Obsession is violent, perverse, and entertaining in its absolute nastiness
Barker’s film is uncomfortably funny and filled with left-field set pieces that will have the audience gasping.…
Hokum announces Damian McCarthy as a major creative voice and a horror maestro
Hokum /ˈhoʊkəm/ noun. [noncount] informal Chiefly US: foolish or untrue words or ideas. Nonsense. Irish director Damian McCarthy has been refining his craft over his three features. Caveat and Oddi…
The Mountain Bride (Vermiglio) is a Rich Tapestry of Human Sensibility
Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio uses Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ as one of its musical motifs. Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) the patriarch of the large Catholic Grazaidei family spends his money on phonograph rec…
The Golden Spurtle Serves Up Warmth, Whimsy, and a Dash of Australia
There’s something quietly magical about a documentary that doesn’t try to dazzle you, but instead invites you in like a warm bowl of something familiar. The Golden Spurtle isn’t loud, flashy, or world…
Maciej J. Drygas' Trains (Pociagi) is a haunting human experience
Although the legend of mass panic in screenings of The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, the 50-second film by the Lumière brothers which first screened in 1895 is untrue, it is true that cinem…
MonsterFest: Good Boy is Best in Show of Doggy Horror
Many of us have heard stories of domestic animals and their uncanny perceptions. The cat in a nursing home or hospice who sits on the bed of the next patient to pass away. The story of dogs knowing wh…
Ron Howard's Eden shows that paradise was never real
There’s something irresistible about the idea of running away from it all, isn’t there? The fantasy of leaving behind the noise, the politics, the mess of modern life, and finding some untouched corne…
Adrian Ortega’s Westgate is an immersively authentic gift of a film
In 1970 the under-construction Westgate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed, the biggest industrial accident to ever occur in Australia. 35 people died. It changed the way the industry approached safety aro…