Subject Early on in Subject, there is a sequence that tries to decide the true aim of non-fiction and the changing landscape of the genre due to companies such as Netflix and HBO. The question being, is the real aim to tell a story that fits what the filmmaker wants or what is truthful to …
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Sheila Vand in A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night When I started thinking about writing this I wanted to entitle it 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and a 30 Year Old Desperately Tries To Stay Awake' but for many different reasons I decided against that. For one, that title is longer than …
Teresa Mo, Tse Kwan-ho, Edan Lui and Hedwig Tam in Hong Kong Family When teenager Yeung's (Edan Lui) Chinese family gather for a winter solstice dinner everything goes disastrously wrong fracturing the family leading to eight years of estrangement and resent. However in the build-up to the winter solstice a visit from a distant cousin …
Ainet Jounou in Alcarràs There is a almost perfect simplicity to Carla Simón's Alcarràs, a film that makes a promise in its opening moments and never detours or dodges its inevitable conclusion. It's in this self assured storytelling that writers Arnau Vilaró and Simón manage to tell a story of family that feels both unique …
Claudia Black in Deus Years back, small budget science fiction was king and finding small features like Deus was easy but those times have become a thing of the past and we now live in a world of franchise tentpoles and big budget Sci-Fi. There is something oddly refreshing about a film like Deus, despite …
Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver in Call Jane There is a timeliness to Call Jane, a feature that follows a cloistered housewife called Joy (Elizabeth Banks), who upon hearing she needs an abortion for medical reasons and is denied by the hospital board, finds herself seeking an illegal alternative while finding herself assisting women all …
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin Since the start of his career, director Martin McDonagh has shown an unparalleled ability to mask darker themes behind some of the blackest comedy out there. In Bruges in particular was a discussion of guilt, shame and morality but one that wasn't afraid to mock …
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Ben Foster and Alice Lowe in Medieval If you said the name Jan Žižka (Ben Foster) outside of the Czech Republic you'd be hard pressed to find someone, outside of historians who know the rebel general. Petr Jákl's film Medieval seeks to remedy that by giving a look at the young life of the man. …
Georgina Campbell in Barbarian Although firmly planting itself in the horror genre, Barbarian is unlike most conventional, fear inducing pictures in that it constantly tries to change its narrative at every turn to keep its audience guessing. Writer and Director Zach Cregger is less interested in jump scares and surprises (although there are a few), …
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Luke Macfarlane and Billy Eichner in Bros The fact that Bros exists shouldn't be the progressive milestone it is. It serves as the first gay romantic comedy developed by a major motion picture studio starring two openly gay men. It is a film that should have existed years ago and while it's a welcome change …
The Sardonic Romantic 