Tag: Review
LFF Review: Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart)
One can easily imagine the turning heads of Disney and Pixar, for instance, as the batwing doors swing open and a new pretender to the…
LFF Review: After Love (Aleem Khan)
It took me a while to place the faces of actresses Joanna Scanlan and Nathalie Richard as I was immersed in After Love. One of…
Review: The Wolf of Snow Hollow
While it rehashes plenty of tried-and-told horror stories in places, The Wolf of Snow Hollow is commendable for its intense familiarity. The warm Christmas carols,…
LFF Review: Zanka Contact (Ismaël El Iraki)
Zanka Contact is a film deliberately built upon clichés. Its protagonists, Rajaes (Khansa Batma) and Larsen (Ahmed Hammoud) are a prostitute and a faded, drug-addicted guitarist…
LFF Review: David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)
I had a few thoughts after the first song of American Utopia finished. The first was a sort of awe at Spike Lee’s direction, which…
LFF Review: Shadow Country / Krajina ve stínu (Bohdan Sláma)
The harrowing, unimaginable consequences of war might well be a sub-genre of its own. Personal trauma, physical injuries, a life-long toll. While fuzzing helicopter propellers…
Back Shelf Cinema: Marketa Lazarová (1967)
I personally could not have put our 1967 in Film series to bed many months ago without re-watching and constantly praising what amounts to the…
LFF Review: Another Round / Druk (Thomas Vinterberg)
Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Vinterberg seem made for each other. Building from the dizzyingly visceral realism of his early masterpiece Festen (1998), Vinterberg has always…
Film Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Coming off his directorial debut Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin is back expanding his focus from a deeply personal character study to the capturing of a…
LFF Review: Relic (Natalie Erika James)
In 2018, at our very own Femme Filmmakers Festival, a spooky film of just 9 minutes captured chilling themes of aging isolation and childhood relics….
LFF Review: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross)
It is often said that hanging out with drunk people is unbearable when you’re sober. Drunkenness is a different state of being: it permits things…
LFF Review: This Is My Desire [Eyimofe] (Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri)
Arie and Chuko Esiri‘s first feature is a uniquely elegant one. It signals the start, I hope, of two brilliant careers. Indeed, the sheer artfulness…
LFF Review: Honeymood (Talya Lavie)
Sometimes there’s nothing like a guitar strumming to set the scene and envisage a sense of humour. Talya Lavie‘s Israeli film, Honeymood, has enough organic…
LFF Review: Herself (Phyllida Lloyd)
Herself is a tale of the highs and lows in the life of Dublin based mother Sandra, who is a domestic abuse victim who finds…
