I really enjoyed this film, although afterwards I felt guilty about it. How can someone so toxic be so adorable?
Continue readingTwinless (2025)
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Remaining Native (2025)
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Director Paige Bethmann gives us the gentle story of Ku Stephens, a young runner from the Pailute people in Nevada.
Continue readingEvil Does Not Exist (2023)
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High and Low (1963)
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Cinema Nova is showing restored Akira Kurosawa films and there are many that I haven’t seen. This one just happened to fit into my schedule and with a 9:15 pm screening in one of the small basement cinemas, I was kept company by a ragtag assortment of film nerds.
Continue readingHouse of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) (2018)
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Firebrand (2023)
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Whatever I was feeling about this feminist historical drama about Henry VIII’s last wife Katherine Parr was knocked askew by the oddly contemporary credits.
Continue readingTickled (2016)
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Okay this might seem obvious but this film is not really about competitive endurance tickling.
Continue readingWe Live in Time (2024)
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It’s such a relief when a film is more than it seems. With an eminently forgettable title, so forgettable that I have to keep searching for Florence Pugh and then looking at her filmography to remember what it is called, the trailer for this makes it feel like you’re being shown the whole story.
Continue readingHeretic (2024)
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What is it with horror movies in 2024? It feels like a golden age of clever, intellectual, and suspenseful horrors that trade on our understanding of the genre without ever feeling like they are relying on cheap thrills.
Continue readingLonglegs (2024)
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The hook for this quirky horror is definitely Nicolas Cage and the almost comical character he plays. It’s something that is variously hidden and revealed in promotion for the film and it was one of the things that made me go to see it at a cinema.
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