Category: Review

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness”. These are the words echoed throughout Ryan Braund’s ambitious and visually captivating new feature…

Clara Sola is the debut feature of the Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén. It was screened in the Quinzaine de Réalisateur section and is…

Robuste, or Robust as it’s called in English, with an untranslatable pun, was the opening film of Semaine de la Critique in this year’s Cannes…

When Jaques Rivette made Love On the Ground in 1984 he said that one of the best reasons for making films is being able to…

This may be a personal issue, but there’s something about Andrea Arnold‘s brand of wallowing realism that never quite brings a point to its misery….

So May We Start? The opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Annette, directed by Leos Carax and written and scored by Sparks. It is…

At some point, everyone wants to be healthier. Everyone has tried to be a better version of themselves. Some of you will have thought of…

After a highly-publicised reshuffle of Disney’s executive team in 1984, newly-appointed CEO Michael Eisner and head of Walt Disney Pictures Jeffrey Katzenberg were keen to…

In the late ’80s to the early ’90s, there was a desire for blood. Built by the backbone of toxic masculinity and love of displays…

A Short Film About Killing opened in Poland in March 1988. Two months later, it played in competition in Cannes, where it won the Jury…

Coming-of-age films trade in nostalgia and relatability, so it makes sense that so many are about young men. The male experience is the generic one,…

Amidst the avalanche of franchise sequels and campy B-movies that seemed to dominate horror in 1988, a handful of horror’s big names were releasing some…

“They live, we sleep” is written on the wall of a vacant church where the protagonist, an unnamed man, wanders in search of answers. Currently…

Lars Von Trier’s Medea takes an especially distressing turn on an Ancient Greek classic. Retaining the well-known plot of the Euripides play, Medea is a…