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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
South Korean documentarian Kangyu Garam makes her feature-length debut with Lucky, Apartment, a film that feels both intimate and unsettling in the way it threads the ordinary with the unbearable. At…
There are zombie films that thrill you, and then there are those that haunt you — not with snarling teeth or sudden jump scares, but with quiet questions about love, grief, and the echoes we leave beh…
Alice Douard’s Love Letters (Des Preuves d’Amour) is the kind of film that sneaks up on you. On paper, it might look like another story about motherhood—a theme cinema has returned to countless times—…
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Drive-Away Dolls was messy but chaotically charming. Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan’s infectious (anti)chemistry held the shenanigans together even when every…
There are some movie titles that instantly grab you. Lesbian Space Princess was one of those for me. Ever since I first heard about it, I’ve been eagerly waiting to watch it. And within the first five…