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“Is that it?” My gut asked this the moment The Brutalist ended following a jarring epilogue. And for the most part, I am still left...

We're back at it with bold musicals, queer desire and a nightmarish Copenhagen. The End (2024) Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Genre/s:...

Mismatched grieving, hypothetical futures, confrontations, pursuing perfection and jazz in a coup d'etat. This week I watched... A Real...

Strippers and Russian Oligarchs, the good and bad Harmony Korines, a Cillian Murphy mastersclass, the lasting effects of colonialism and...

A collection of vignettes, Angelina Jolie sings opera, confronting tragedy in Canada, and a classic from Franco-era Spain. Here's what I...

Told through nine vignettes over the course of a day in Tehran, Terrestrial Verses follows ordinary citizens navigating the increasingly...

So here's a new thing I'm doing that will summarise the highlights, lowlights and well, midlights of my movie-watching weeks. Instead of...

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...