This Canadian feature by Ally Pankiw is funny, moving, and a great vehicle for Rachel Sennott’s particular style of flinty, self deprecating comedy.
Continue readingI Used to be Funny (2023)
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Bad Behaviour (2023)
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I was intrigued to see Alice Englert’s first feature, particularly as it’s stars Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw and, hopefully, the New Zealand people and landscape.
Continue readingYou’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 readingLa Chimera (2023)
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Charcoal (Carvão) (2022)
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Beyond Utopia (2022)
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What starts as a talking heads documentary about North Korean defectors becomes a gripping race to safety as we follow a family who have crossed the border into a hostile China.
Continue readingBlackbird Blackbird Blackberry (შაშვი შაშვი მაყვალი)(2023)
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Four Daughters (Les Filles d’Olfa) (2023)
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This is one of the most heartfelt and inventive documentaries I ever remember seeing.
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 readingAnimalia (Parmi Nous)(2023)
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An enigmatic sci-fi-adjacent Moroccan mystical mood piece – which is a term, I never thought I would use.
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