Film Review: Leave No Trace (2018)
byLeave No Trace is a new film by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), which has a similar exploration of a father and daughter’s relationship. Originally…
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Film Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
byThe Iran-Iraq war started in September of 1980 and lasted eight years. An estimated one million people died in a war which saw Saddam…
MIFF 2016 Film Review: Operation Avalanche (2016)
byNo one will think it’s fake because how insane would this be? There’s an excellent moment in Rodney Ashcer’s documentary Room 237 where the…
Film Review: Sherpa (2015)
by6:45am 18th April 2014. A massive chunk of glacial ice collapsed over the main climbing section of Mt Everest which triggered an avalanche. Fourteen million tonnes…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: My Skinny Sister (2015)
byIt’s sadly all too common for women in Western society to experience body image concerns. In a culture where thin is in, and beauty is…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: The Guest (2014)
byThe Guest, directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, is a hilariously bonkers ride. It starts off innocently enough: a man arrives…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: James White (2015)
byIn James White, director and screenwriter Josh Mond has created an understated character study of a man struggling to cope with his father’s death…
MIFF 2015: Film Review: Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
byHow does one approach reviewing a film like Yakuza Apocalypse? Directed by Takashi Miike and with a screenplay by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, the film could be…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: The Invitation (2015)
byIt has been quite a while since a thriller as taut and superbly crafted as The Invitation has come along. Written by Phil Hay…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: My Golden Days (2015)
byThere is a messiness to youth, and how we remember it, that is visceral, often indescribable. This is my first encounter with French director…