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Today I look at Miranda July’s quirky comedy Kajillionaire, Abel Ferrara’s existential journey into Siberia and India’s Venice award-winning The Disciple. Kajillionaire The American Dream is…
It is the first day of LFF and I take a look at Steve McQueen’s Mangrove, rural-set Australian horror Relic, and Elizabeth Moss in biopic Shirley. Mangrove “The United Kingdom is not a racist count…
Powered by JustWatch To explore Kirsten Johnson’s immersive Cameraperson is to witness a unique, powerful memoir unfolding and unfurling. The core concept is deceptively simple: the entirety of…
Mignonnes (or Cuties as it’s English translation has been infamously known) is a French coming-of-age drama written and directed by Maïmouna Doucouré about a young Senegalese-French girl, raised Musli…
Most of what follows will basically be a “Confession of a Nolan Fanboy”, which is what I am. Christopher Nolan is the filmmaker I credit with actually getting me into movies as Inception hit me at the…
Powered by JustWatch I miss Christopher Reeve. I don’t say that in a fanboy “I miss my favourite Superman” way, though that’s certainly a factor. In his four film performances as the Man of Ste…
Powered by JustWatch I once wrote about how Crystal Moselle was helping reinvigorate and revive the cinematic world of New York City with her essential film Skate Kitchen. Moselle showed youth a…
Powered by JustWatch As with much of Tim Winton’s output, Dirt Music is a narrative drenched in masculinity. It simmers with whispered thoughts that ricochet around the minds of men who yearn fo…
Powered by JustWatch Paris Hilton, formerly the most famous person in the world. With This Is Paris, the documentary format breaks the character facade portrayed by the 00’s icon, revealing her…
Powered by JustWatch Music documentaries come in various forms. There’s the rise-fall-rise film that provides a warts and all perspective of a loved band across their career - see Dig! -, or the…
Powered by JustWatch I am a fool. A damned one at that. For about a year or more, I was confident and excited for the fact that Disney were doing a live-action remake of their 1998 film Mulan, s…
Powered by JustWatch I support Josh Trank. At 27-years-old, Trank was the youngest director to have a film open at number one at the US box office, with 2012’s Chronicle, following such heights…