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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Sound of Falling is a confronting and complex exploration of inter-generational experience
Sound of Falling manages the impressive task of imitating the non-linear depiction of interconnected psyches, whilst maintaining enough storytelling muscle to avoid the pitfalls of leaving its audience with little reality to hold on to.…
Astonishing Grace: James J. Robinson on his stunning debut film First Light
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…
The labyrinth of the everyday in Kane Parsons’ disquieting Backrooms
Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
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.…
Agnieszka Holland on her search for Franz Kafka
Franz: Becoming Kafka drops breadcrumbs for the audience to follow to go on their own search for an author who shapeshifts in our understanding; and in adopting that openness and style, Holland has made a stunning literary biographical work.…
A Private Life is a delicate Parisian mystery that’s kind on the heart
In the cosiness of Paris in winter, red wine dinners, and old lovers in new trysts, it seems the pleasure of A Private Life is in the fantasy of bourgeois misadventures.…
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.…
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a comfy sequel
If you’re happy to just exist in the world of the characters then The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to fit perfectly. If you’d like something “groundbreaking” the film isn’t it. Ironically, it’s more comfy sweats than haute couture.…
First Contact: Rape, Retribution and Colonial Logic in Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest
It may present itself as a gentle comedy of manners, but Days and Nights in the Forest is a deeply confronting film once you peel the layers.…