Category: Review

Current, moving and relevant, Laundry Day gently opens a conversation which a lot of people are likely to want and/or need to have in our…

The tinkle of a piano and the tedium plastered across our heroine’s face goes a long way to tell us something about the state of…

Fanmi is a quietly devastating film, revolving around a recognisable mother-daughter relationship. As the daughter, Martine endures the trappings of her own mind, and an…

“We are fools in love,” Jane Austen famously wrote in her novel Pride and Prejudice. This statement can easily be confirmed by whoever has had…

In a dense forest, a young Cambodian girl coaxes a tarantula from the trees, its furry legs gingerly creeping along the trunk. Does she mean…

From the opening second of this less-than-three-minute short film I recognised the music playing over the already eye-catching images as deftly similar to that of…

Joanie Martel gives a beautiful and nuanced performance as Babz, a “lonely but endearing ex convict” in Zoe Pelchat’s Lune. When we meet Babz, she’s…

Now, I’m no teenage girl. Never have been. But stories on film about adolescent girls is a fairly common thread. And a soaring trend, the…

While feminism has grown over the decades, a newer concept being fully realized and defined is girl power. The adolescent experience for girls can be…

Heroines lures its audience into a false sense of security, a false sense of comedy perhaps. Anna Khaja’s Regina bursts to life in the first…

Back in 2020 (remember that momentous year?), ample praise was been put upon the governing bodies in Turkey by their own residents. The country’s largest…

Instantly striking with low level shock, this film opens with a scene which immediately asks important questions. You wonder who the girl is and what…

In the world of Julia Ducourneau’s Titane, nobody survives a collision intact. Even when characters walk away from various wreckages with their lives, writer-director Ducourneau…

One wonders how far you have to say, loneliness is a bitch and I’m numbed by the mundane office life, before your eventual companionship with…