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You’ll Never Find Me (2023)
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Sometimes you want a horror experience that’s visceral and uncomplicated and the debut feature by South Australian directors Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen gives that in spades.
Continue readingThe Eternal Memory (2023)
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Maite Alberdi allows us to travel back-and-forth through the life of writer Augusto Góngora. Part of the documentation and reconciliation after Chile’s fascist junta, his own memories are now scattering with Alzheimer’s.
Continue readingPictures of Ghosts (Retratos Fantasmas) (2023)
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Kleber Mendonça Filho takes us on a slow, self referential meander through his home suburb of Recife in Brazil and the history of its cinemas.
Continue readingGolden Eighties (1986)
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An insubstantial musical bubble about the vagaries of love set in an 80s stage set shopping mall.
Continue readingBlackBerry (2023)
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I lived through the rise and fall of BlackBerry but, not being an early adopter, it barely touched my life.
Continue readingTommy Guns (Nação Valente) (2023)
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Destined to confound, this sometimes surreal drama (with a touch of horror) sits in an uncomfortable space between metaphor and realism.
Continue readingRoom 999 (Chambre 999) (2023)
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A room full of filmmakers with remarkably little insight into the world outside of their bubble.
Continue readingBiosphere (2022)
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That an IMDb user gave this one star and called it “an LGBTQ+ movie disguised as a sci-fi” makes me like it even more.
Continue readingOldboy (올드보이) (2003)
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I’m not sure what I was expecting from Oldboy but I didn’t think it would be quite so hard to watch.
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