Category: Review
Terrifier 3 Review: A Gory Gut Fest of Slasher Mayhem
Art The Clown is back for Terrifier 3. Just when Miles County, New York thought they had seen the last of the Terrifier’s gory reign of terror, he returns. Art continues his rampage to go after brother and sister duo, Sienna and Jonathan Shaw from Terrifier 2. This time around he gifts more blood, guts and gore to Miles County to celebrate his Christmas.
London Film Festival Review: Maria (Pablo Larraín)
A whole life in just a few days, and what a life! Pablo Larraín’s trilogy-of-sorts about iconic women of the 20th Century concludes with his…
London Film Festival Review: Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
We’re all downsizing these days. Forget the Roaring ‘20s – these are the Receding ‘20s. Costs are going up, people are staying in, and the…
London Film Festival Review: Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
For all the lush scenery and exotic vistas with which it meets the eye, Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour is a movie defined as much by…
London Film Festival Review: Blitz (Steve McQueen)
The cinema of suffering need not necessarily be a traumatic experience. In the 16 years since his first feature, Hunger, Steve McQueen has proved himself…
London Film Festival Review: Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
Subjectivity can be a hard thing to depict in cinema. Even in the most immersive, captivating movies, there exists the perpetual sense that we, the…
London Film Festival Review: Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot)
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” A Kierkegaard quote may strike one as an unusual jumping-off point for an…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
Autumn in its full glory is celebrated to the fullest in Petite Maman. It is a charming, delightful film from renowned French filmmaker Céline Sciamma…
Film Review: Great Performances Drive the Emotion in ‘His Three Daughters’
When you have three powerhouse actresses the caliber of Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon, and Elizabeth Olsen, there’s no reason to over-complicate a narrative. Luckily director…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Heat Spell (Marie-Pier Dupuis)
Heat Spell, written and directed with such an assured poise by Marie-Pier Dupuis, is yet another flourishing example of the kind of high quality short…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: ‘The Rider’ Is A Beautiful Slice of Tragic Americana
The Western is a genre that has been reinvented time and time again. Many creatives have interpolated the classic American genre but no modern interpretation…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Land Without Evil (Katalin Egely)
What a journey this is. Katalin Egely, an extremely well-travelled Hungarian filmmaker, incorporates her extensive prowess with animation story-telling to not only embrace the indefinable…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Aria (Myrsini Aristidou)
The Cannes Film Festival get Rosetta so the Femme Filmmakers Festival get Aria. The comparisons to the Dardennes’ Palme d’Or winning drama are clear as…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)
The opening seconds of Kate Novack‘s terrific visual case study, Hysterical Girl, sifts your psyche through several potential discourses of film story-telling. A blizzard of…
