Category Archive: film review

Film review: Sixty Six is emotionally-charged

Sixty Six is a compilation of 12 shorts assembled during the years of 2002-2015 by Los Angeles-based artist Lewis Klahr.

Film review: The Keeping Room

Pairing uncertainty resulting from the aftermath of the American Civil War with the fear of being female in a male-dominated world.

Film Review: Jane Got a Gun

Directed by Gavin O’Connor, Jane Got a Gun is a highly stylistic western which draws on elements of the classic western.

Film Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Director Taika Waititi (Boy, What We Do in the Shadows) returns with a new offering and it’s an absolute bloody gem of a film.

Fresh Dressed and Style Wars: A comparison of ages

Addy Fong studies two films from “Essential Independents: American Cinema Now” festival.

Film Review: In Transit is beautiful and intimate

In Transit is a film which documents the ordinary in a way that is both beautiful and intimate. It’s an inviting watch containing a simple premise.

Film review: Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins is a film which makes you realise that it doesn’t matter if you are more or less talented then those around you.

Film Review: Eye in the Sky

Eye in the Sky explores the newfound mundanity and shifting political concerns of murder in the detached world of drone warfare.

Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise

Lee Scratch Perry has just reached the grand old age of 80 and to celebrate, a film following the last 15 years of his life is being released.

Film Review: Rams is full of pathos

We know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking how good it would be to go and see a film about sheep farming in rural Iceland.

Film Review: Sherpa tells a tragic tale

This BAFTA nominated documentary looks at the 2014 Everest climbing season. But, my goodness, it does much more than that.

Film Review: A Bigger Splash

Director of the Academy Award-nominated “I am Love”, Luca Guadagnino returns with A Bigger Splash, starring Tilda Swinton.