Author: Juliette Howard
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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…
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EIFF: Zodiac Killer Project (2025) – Director Charlie Shackleton discusses our fascination with the macabre, spontaneity and how failure can be turned into creativity
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Charlie Shackleton was halfway through planning his Zodiac Killer documentary when the rights to the source material fell…
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The Salt Path controversy – a step too far?
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A book turned film has been on my mind a lot recently – The Salt Path, by Raynor…
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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) – fun and action-packed latest instalment without any of the depth
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In the latest addition to the Jurassic Park/World franchise, the likes of Sam Neill and Bryce Dallas Howard…
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Die Akademie (2024) – an entertaining female Whiplash with little of the stakes
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Maja Bons is excellent as budding and naïve artist Jojo in Camilla Guttner’s Die Akademie, a surreal tale…
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28 Years Later (2025) – Danny Boyle’s tense third instalment does too much all at once
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Six months ago, one of the most frightening trailers to ever grace screens dropped to mass – apocalyptic…
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Good One (2024) – Lily Collias walks a winding path in India Donaldson’s indie full of complicated emotions
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There are always two types of hikers – those who know how to pack peanut butter and those…
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The Salt Path (2024) – unremarkable film for what is a truly remarkable story
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Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake meets Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild in this moving saga of a couple who, evicted…
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I finally watched Schindler’s List (1993)
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The idea you make of a film before watching it has always been a strange concept – a…
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) – Wes Anderson bounces back with whimsical tale of a father and daughter bonding over illegal affairs
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Are Wes Anderson’s films loved because of the way they look or because of the stories they tell?…
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Riefenstahl (2024) – portrait of Hitler’s personal film director is fascinating if slightly biased
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“Memory is the paradise from which you can never be removed”, writes Leni Riefenstahl in one of her…
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The Surfer (2024) – Nicolas Cage just can’t catch a break (or wave) in hallucinogenic Australian thriller
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Nicolas Cage navigates choppy waters in this bonkers Australian flick about a man so determined to join the…
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Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow) (2024) – Debut about young dairy farmers is as tender as it is wistful
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There is very little forgiveness to be found in Louise Courvoisier’s debut Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow), a story…
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The Penguin Lessons (2025) – Adaptation of Tom Michell’s memoir plays between the feel good and existential with grace
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There’s something quite magnetic about films staging a curmudgeonly man being forced out of his comfort zone. The…
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Sinners (2025) – Ryan Coogler’s thriller bites off more than it can chew
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Ryan Coogler has successfully broken out of Marvel with Sinners, a southern gothic horror that bites off more…
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Drop (2025) – Unoriginal high-strung thriller is entertainment without substance
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Meghann Fahy stars in this nail-biting thriller from screenwriter and director Christopher Landon, a far cry from his…
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Mickey 17 (2025) – Bong Joon Ho’s dark dystopia is strangely comforting to watch
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It’s striking how such a dark concept can be so delightful. On a human expedition to colonize the…
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The Last Showgirl (2024) – Pamela Anderson airbrushes her razzle dazzle life in Gia Coppola’s tragic drama
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We are in an age of ageing women on camera – first came Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, in…
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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (2025) – Lovelorn heroine ages beautifully in sucker punch of a fourth instalment
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Bridget Jones has always been, and always will be, the epitome of the struggling singleton in her thirties…
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A Complete Unknown (2024) – Bob Dylan’s transgressive nature does not carry through to his biopic
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There should be a word to describe a feeling of nostalgia for a time you have never lived…
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