Category: Review
EIFF Exclusive Review: Alice
On paper, Josephine Mackerras’ Alice sounds like a film we’ve all seen before. The story of a mild-mannered housewife/mother who becomes a high-end escort in…
Review: The Mist (2007)
Every classic horror film has that scene. The scene that defines the experience for a first-time viewer, the scene friends all talk about after it…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Michael Clayton
In most films, we’re only aware of the last shot in retrospect. The screen cuts to black, and only then do we process after the…
Ratatouille Movie Review: It’s Delicious!!
In one of the most memorable sequences of Ratatouille,one of the film’s characters, Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole), who is one of Paris’s most influential food…
Shef Doc Fest Exclusive: On The President’s Orders
Directed by Olivier Sarbil and James Jones, this sick, thrilling and gripping documentary tells the scathing story of President Duterte’s bloody and very violent campaign…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There is a shot early on in Andrew Dominik’s 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford which must be on…
Shef Doc Fest Exclusive: Dark Suns
As you can probably expect from a film entitled Dark Suns (Soleils Noirs), this is a very serious documentary. It offers the viewer a very…
Shef Doc Fest Exclusive: The Brink
Ever since 2016, the world seems to be on the brink of breaking apart. The divide between the left and the right seems larger now…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Enchanted
Today when we watch the latest given to us by Disney, it is easy to become a bit jaded with how self aware they have…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Away From Her
The thing that comes back to me as I think about a film like Away from Her is the snow. Snow feels like it’s flooding…
Zodiac (2007) Movie review: Stranger than fiction…
Mark Twain once wrote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” Zodiac is pretty…
Review: László Nemes’ Latest, Sunset (2019)
As glimpsed in the enticing trailer, the opening of Hungarian period piece, Sunset, is classic cinematic allure. Visiting an illustrious hat store, our protagonist, Írisz…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven
The opening moments of the 2007 film, The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite, German; Yasamin Kiyisinda, Turkish), sees one of the principal characters,…
Review: High Life (2019)
High Life is not an easily digestible film. From its heavy themes all the way to the infamous Fuckbox, it’s always a film with many…
