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…
TIFF 23 Dispatch: ‘Knox Goes Away’; ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’; ‘Poolman’
Nearly every TIFF features one or two films directed by prominent actors, and to call them a mixed bag is almost deceitfully charitable. When something…
TIFF 2023 Dispatch: ‘American Fiction’; ‘Les Indesirables’; ‘Stamped From the Beginning; ‘Silver Dollar Road’
In the first few days of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, I saw films depicting the struggle of Black communities and families in many…
Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Standing outside the Sydney theatre on a red carpet, Tom Cruise was certainly in his element – smiling brightly and waving at an adoring crowd…
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….
Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse burst onto theatrical screens with aplomb in 2018, it was already known a sequel was potentially in development. Such was…
Cannes Film Review: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
From iconic master of cinema and beloved auteur Martin Scorsese, comes his latest film— Killers of the Flower Moon, which had its highly anticipated world…
Cannes Film Review: May December (2023)
A May December relationship is a term that describes a couple in a romantic relationship with a considerable age gap between them. The ‘May’ refers…
Cannes Film Review: The Zone of Interest (2023)
There’s a unique genre of film that attempts the brave undertaking of doing justice in depicting horrific real-world events throughout human history. From World Wars…
Cannes Film Review: Firebrand (2023)
Many a book, television series and film has been made about the tumultuous and intriguing life of English King Henry VIII, and the number of…
Cannes Film Review: Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
The winner of the 76th Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious award – the Palme d’Or – went to the French film, Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie D’une…
Cannes Film Review: Asteroid City (2023)
Wes Anderson is an infamous name in modern filmmaking, now synonymous with high stylization and a satisfying aesthetic. His saturated pastel sets, signature static and…
Film Review: Bottoms (2023)
“Cult classic” isn’t a title one should too soon or too often frivolously attach to a fil. But if a queer, Gen Z, satire-comedy flick…
Festival de Cannes Review: Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Monster is the latest film from renowned Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous prolific work includes films such as Broker and Shoplifters, which had their…
