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The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) – dramatisation of real-life events in Gaza that leaves cinemas sobbing is devastating
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How to critique a film that transcends fiction and is so ingrained in the reality of today? Raw,…
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Venice Film Festival: Dead Man’s Wire (2025) – Ensemble cast are excellent in Gus Van Sant’s trigger-happy thriller-turned-part-comedy
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On Tuesday, February 8th 1977, Tony Kiritsis, hardworking resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, walked into the offices of Meridian…
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Venice Film Festival: A House of Dynamite (2025) – Kathryn Bigelow’s hiatus was worth the wait
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Political thriller is perhaps an understatement for Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, her first film in eight…
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Venice Film Festival: L’Étranger (2025) – the absurdity of an adaptation
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“Maman died today”, reads the first sentence of Albert Camus’ magnus opus, L’Étranger, published in 1942. Apathetic and…
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Venice Film Festival: The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) – Slow burn gets lost between traditional period piece and delirious speculative drama
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Amanda Seyfried’s most significant role since Mank comes in the form of Mona Fastvold’s epic The Testament of…
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Venice Film Festival: The Smashing Machine (2025) – Benny Safdie’s latest lacks a punch despite its excellent performances
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For most of his career, Dwayne Johnson has been hanging from the edge of CGI buildings, fighting flora…
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Together (2025) – Alison Brie and Dave Franco are inseparable in entertaining comedy horror
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Real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco star in this gruelling horror comedy about a couple who, after…
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The Life of Chuck (2024) – Mike Flanagan drops horror for drama in syrupy tale of the meaning of life
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Stephen King adaptations are showing no signs of slowing down as The Life of Chuck finally hits the…
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Materialists (2025) – Celine Song’s depiction of modern dating is refreshingly truthful
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A series of faces file past the screen, one after the other stating their criteria for the perfect…
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EIFF: Little Trouble Girls (2025) – Director Urška Djukić talks the importance of music, repression and shame in a young girl’s life, and working instinctively
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Following her Cesar win for best animated short with her documentary Granny’s Sexual Life, Urška Djukić gives us…
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Weapons (2025) – Superbly entertaining gore fest is as scary as it is funny
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With Weapons, Zach Cregger cements himself as one to watch within the masters of horror bracket – a…
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EIFF: On The Sea (2025) – Actors Lorne MacFadyen and Barry Ward talk hidden details, masculinity and friendships made along the way
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With On The Sea, novelist turned director Helen Walsh has created something truly special – the tale of…
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EIFF: Walk With Me (2024) – Director Heidi Levitt discusses working with her family, letting herself create and the need for a movement to help Alzheimer patients and their caregivers
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In a particularly challenging scene of Heidi Levitt’s Walk With Me, the director has lost her husband in…
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EIFF: Best Boy (2025) – Director Jesse Noah Klein talks family trauma, the importance of language and exploring drama through a comic lens
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Writer/director Jesse Noah Klein’s Best Boy opens with a funeral – the patriarch of the Seligmans is dead,…
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EIFF: Concessions (2025) – Director Mas Bouzidi talks movie theatres, influences and working with his hero, the late Michael Madsen
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It’s a Saturday, and The Royal Alamo, a beloved independent movie theatre, is closing after 52 years. From…