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The moment Freaky Tales kicks off, you know you’re in for a ride. It’s 1987 in Oakland, where neon signs flicker, punk music thrashes, and danger lurks in every alleyway. But this isn’t just any ‘80s…
A Working Man certainly requires a lot of work to sit through. Following an ex-black ops agent turned construction worker searching for his boss's kidnapped daughter; director David Ayer reunites…
Alex Scharfman’s debut feature Death of a Unicorn riffs on three main themes: a satire about the venality of the ultra-rich, a hyper-violent creature feature, and a Spielbergian fractured and healed p…
Oh, Canada marks a change of pace for Paul Schrader following the completion of his Man in a Room trilogy (First Reformed, The Card Counter, The Master Gardener). Still, it isn’t difficult to see what…
The women sit sweltering on the beach with their burkas black and shrouding. Only metres away the men swim and laugh. Under the robes are dangerous objects: guns and bare legs that long to stand in th…
In the sun-dappled town of Ushimado, a small revolution is unfolding—one that takes place not in bustling streets or grand arenas, but in the quiet corners of a sacred shrine. Kazuhiro Soda’s The Cats…
When it comes to outlining the plot or character traits of Jellyfish, the feature debut from West Aussie based filmmaker Giles Chan, it’s hard to escape critically applied terms such as ‘slacker’ or ‘…
Combining the writer of Goodfellas, the director of Bugsy, and starring Robert De Niro twice, The Alto Knights, based on the relationship between two New York Mafioso - Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vi…
In a world overwhelmed by climate change, where resources grow scarcer and humanity has long ago abandoned the open skies, The Assessment dares to ask the question: What does it mean to bring life int…
An unbelievable $320 million USD is reportedly how much the Netflix Russo brother’s streaming title The Electric State cost. It’s expensive in the manner that a Chanel boomerang is expensive: a produc…
Though an impressive headline pairing alone ought to make James Ashcroft's The Rule of Jenny Pen appointment viewing, this unusually thoughtful genre exercise’s comment on tyranny and the absurdit…
Saïd Belktibia’s suburban Paris set contemporary “witchcraft” thriller Hood Witch starring Golshifteh Farahani as the desperately broke single mother Nour who takes to smuggling restricted animals fro…