Oh the sweet nostalgia of the 90s! The toxic world of commercial photography, particularly if you’re a woman, and the chic of heroin-fuelled nights.
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The Little Sister (2025)
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Fatima (Nadia Melliti) is an Algerian teen living in France. She loves football, hangs out with her bros at school, and spars with her older sisters as they tease her for not knowing how to cook or dress in a way that men like.
Continue readingTwinless (2025)
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I really enjoyed this film, although afterwards I felt guilty about it. How can someone so toxic be so adorable?
Continue readingRemaining 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.
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