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It’s impossible to predict the rhythm and anarchic, punk rock nature of a Radu Jude film. They’re often strung together by common themes...

Just where do you start when talking about The Zone of Interest, the newest film by the far too elusive Jonathan Glazer (only his fourth...

Picture it: A John Wayne-type is protecting a picture-perfect blonde-haired, blue-eyed family on the prairie. Their caravan is surrounded...

Fate, destiny, providence. This is inyeon, a Korean philosphy. If strangers walk in the street and their clothes brush one another, it...

Spanning over a few decades, The Eight Mountains is an intimate epic about friendship, the ones we take for granted and how both the loss...

Unless you’ve been living in a musky old cave banging rocks together, you’d at least be a tiny bit familiar with the free marketing...

Armed with a wad of tissues and fully preparing myself to sob in front of a room of people and my partner (who claims I have a heart of...

The older we get, our worldview, our priorities and sometimes our very nature change. It gradually happens whether we like it or not....

Looking back, our years at school are often met with either of these two things: nostalgia in reliving the peak years of your life (oof),...

In this day and age, it really is a mammoth task to be able to provide a true family film that is actually for the entire family. These...

Radu Jude often is a filmmaker that has no interest in masking his anger and frustrations with nuance and delicately crafted metaphors...

Originally titled Soggy Bottom, Licorice Pizza’s name change lends itself to the nostalgic warmth its title brings to writer/director...

Delicate isn’t a word one would ever describe the Western genre. It’s a uniquely American genre that would prioritize and idolize the...

“Oscar-winner” this and “Oscar-nominee” that, the trailers for House of Gucci are shameless in their Oscar-baiting, with its campaign...

This year we have had a number of stage plays and musicals making their leap to the big screen. But the two that are notably significant...

War is hell. But before Vietnam, most films wouldn’t really portray it as a complete and true vision of hell – a place where redemption...

Rebecca Hall is an actress of considerable talent, someone who has consistently held scenes and films together with ease (this year's The...

Creativity ebbs and flows differently from person to person. For some people, it comes so easily. For others, like myself, it’s an...

Writing anything about Titane is a challenge in itself. If you go over various reviews and analyses popping up over the internet, so many...

Man’s connection with nature in the modern world is constantly twisting and turning as it either brings us closer to or further away from...