Film Review: Sometimes Always Never (2018)
byPerhaps you’ve fancied yourself as a Scrabble player at one point or another, but chances are you haven’t sampled the vocabulary (or lexicon) that…
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Film Review: Hotel Mumbai (2018)
byIn November 2008 ten members of a terrorist sect operating out of Pakistan traveled to Mumbai. Over four days they massacred 174 people. In…
Film Review: Wine Calling (2018)
byIn the foothills of the Pyrenees, rebels have invaded the vineyards. Row upon row of grapes sit and ferment in their own natural way,…
Film Review: Fighting with My Family (2019)
byProfessional wrestling is a divisive form of entertainment, to say the least, and there is no doubt that some critics of the sport will…
Film Review: The House That Jack Built (2018)
byAcross a career that has spanned over forty years and fifteen films Lars von Trier has crafted a body of work that demands strong…
Film Review: An Impossible Love (2018)
byYour parents’ relationship plays a big part in shaping who you are. Basic assumptions on many things are forged in the fires of childhood,…
Film Review: Revenge (2017)
byRevenge, the debut film of French writer/director Coralie Fargeat, is bonkers. Absolute, balls to the wall, insanity that arrives on screen like a sledgehammer…
Film Review: The Wild Boys (2017)
byThe film opens in black and white on a secluded beach at night. A young man narrating the sequence is saved from a lion…
Film Review: Everybody Knows (2018)
byAsghar Farhadi has done everything right for Everybody Knows —almost. He’s got the postcard-perfect rural Spanish town, the star-studded cast, the promising and pulsing trailer,…
Film Review: The Sisters Brothers (2018)
byThe Sisters Brothers doesn’t look like the kind of film you’d expect to find at a French film festival. Indeed, this Western shoot-out, set…