I kept thinking this romcom was ‘so French’ as it eschewed all the typical tropes in favour of a madcap, wry cynicism about love. But of course, it’s French-Canadian. Sorry!
Continue readingThe Nature of Love (Simple Comme Sylvain)(2023)
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Goodbye Julia (2023)
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Mohamed Kordofani (in an accomplished debut feature) teaches us about the political and social issues in Sudan in the early years of the Millennium through the eyes of two women on opposite sides of the conflict.
Continue readingSleep (잠) (2023)
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Set predominantly within an apartment, Bong Joon-ho protege Jason Yu’s ‘not really a horror’ hits the right balance between creepiness and drama.
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 readingShayda (2023)
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On the surface, this is a story of a woman trying to leave an abusive marriage, but it shines a light on the insidiousness of domestic violence and its roots in patriarchy.
Continue readingIt Lives Inside (2023)
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
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 readingSorcery (Brujería) (2023)
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I love a bit of folk horror and Chilean director Christopher Murray takes us on a slow and compelling journey through colonisation.
Continue readingFranklin (2022)
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My mum was politically conservative. She and my dad were Liberal voters but I still remember the yellow triangular No Dams sticker on her car.
Continue readingThe Humans (2021)
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This very confident directing debut from writer Stephen Karam has star power that will pull many an unsuspecting viewer into an inexorably bleak story.
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