Author: Robin Write
Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
I know we have become a much more refined bunch of film critic snobs over the years. But I take objection to some of the…
Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
Finally joining the prominent ranks of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, comes the live action feature film about the one and only Wonder Woman….
Day One of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023
Looks like we made it. The 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival has arrived. Better late than never. And a more low-key affair in 2023. But it…
8th Femme Filmmakers Festival – Full Line-Up Revealed
There’s no excusing the much more low-key event this year as the Femme Filmmakers Festival enters it’s 8th year. This very writer is humble enough…
Retrospective Review: Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) – Director’s Cut
There are only a handful of moments during Ari Aster‘s unnerving, horrorsome new flick, Midsommar, were you find yourself chuckling. If only for a second….
Festival de Cannes: David Lynch Takes Us On A Bonkers Road Trip With ‘Wild at Heart’ (1990)
Master of the cinematic strange, David Lynch, struggled to make a film after 1986’s cult classic, Blue Velvet. Hard to believe. Or is it? Not…
Festival de Cannes: Deadly Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Masterful ‘The Assassin’ (2015)
This writer’s first encounter with the Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress, Shu Qi, was in the late 1990s. One of the few occasions a certain sibling, a…
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Dominates Without Motion Picture Win at the 4th Pandora International Film Critics Awards
We have to go back to the Academy Awards in 1972 when Cabaret took home 8 Oscars – including Best Director and two acting prizes…
Pandora International Film Critics Announce Their 2022 Nominations
Heading excitedly into our fourth year, the Pandora International Film Critics have unveiled their nominations for the year in film of 2022. Our small group…
Animation and Canadian Short Films Win Spread of Awards at 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Films from H264 Distribution (winner of the Special Contribution prize) were heavy in numbers but it was Sacrebleu Productions (last year’s recipient of the Special…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: An Extensive Chat With ‘Assembly Line of Broken Hearts’ Creator JC Farris
Picking the brains of someone like filmmaker JC Farris is pretty much like opening a Pandora’s box of creative infection. Her latest short film, Assembly…
Welcome to Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival signifies the last leg of this amazing race. Those ten days have flew by. And no doubt…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: Animator Katalin Egely Returns to the Fest to Talk About ‘When It Comes From the Earth’
It’s fair to say that Hungarian born animator, Katalin Egely, is like part of the furniture at the Femme Filmmakers Festival. This year marks her…
FemmeFilmFest7 Director Roundtable: Dayna Reggero, Olivia Martin-McGuire, Cansu Boğuşlu, Lynn Tomlinson Talk Exclusively to Robin Write
Being the only male in a ‘room’ full of women is an intimidating wonder at the best of times, but when they are as talented…
