Nosferatu - 100 Years On
This isn’t going to be anything massive. This is simply a ringing endorsement. However one can, watch the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu. It is 100 years old and still makes an impact to this day.…
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The Woman King Review – Viola Davis is Excellent in This Rousing Blockbuster Experience
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King is a stellar historical epic, but like the historical epics that inspired the director such as Braveheart, Gladiator, and The Last of the Mohicans it must be not…
Barbarian Review - A Berserk, Beast of A Horror Film
It seems almost unfair to review Zach Cregger’s berserk horror film Barbarian because it really is best experienced going into it knowing nothing. Cregger is best known for his comedic work including…
66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Four – Women Talking, Emily the Criminal, I Love My Dad
It’s LFF day four and Sarah Polley shows us some Women Talking, in her gripping character driven drama, Aubrey Plaza employs some desperate measures to make ends meet in Emily the Criminal, and Patton…
66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Three – The Whale, Bros, Enys Men
On day three, Brendan Fraser returns in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Billy Eichner brings the gay rom-com into the mainstream with Bros and time is a flat circle in Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men. The Whal…
MURU Review – A Condemnation of Colonial Overreach That is Uncompromising and Powerful
Muru in Te reo Māori means a punishment or redress against the Māori community. Director Tearepa Kahi’s film does not use the title lightly, in fact the title is meant to be as incendiary as the piece…
66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Two - Bones and All, Ashkal, Lynch/Oz
On the second day of LFF, Luca Guadagnino takes us on a cannibal road trip with Bones and All, the people of Tunisia must face their past in Ashkal and a documentary explores the associations between…
66th BFI London Film Festival Diary - Day One – Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, The Eternal Daughter, Corsage
The first day of LFF2022 finds two women and a young girl on a journey of self-actualization with Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, Joanna Hogg’s gothic drama The Eternal Daughter, and period drama,…
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Review – Forget What You Know, and You Might Discover Something You Weren’t Expecting
“I'm always drawn to the people that don't neatly fit into the conventional shit that's all around, the system.” – Ana Lily Armipour. Ana Lily Armipour has drawn on her own interstitial e…
A Taste of Hunger (Smagen af sult) Review – What Should Be a Delicious Meal is Instead Bland Fare
Danish director Christoffer Boe’s film A Taste of Hunger begins with a quote by literary provocateur Kathy Acker; “If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” The quote is both decep…
Under Cover Review – A Small Spark in an Already Huge Inferno
Sue Thomson’s eye-opening documentary Under Cover presents the plight of the largest growing cohort of homeless people in Australia; women over the age of 50. It gives the audience access to the lives…
The Secret Review – A Captivating Page-Turner by Alexandra Smith that Details the Rise and Fall of Gladys Berijiklian
As a West Aussie, it was a little bit bizarre peering over the border during the height of the pandemic and hearing the calamity of praise being heaped upon the then NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. As…