It’s worth lauding this film simply because of its collaborative creation with Hollywood heavyweight Riley Keough adding weight to what is essentially an authentic indigenous story.
Continue readingWar Pony (2022)
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We Might As Well Be Dead (2022)
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A well-dressed couple and their child trek through a forest and enter a compound where a white tower block rises amidst verdant lawns and a manicured golf course. They are desperate for their residence application to be accepted in this dystopian world where everything outside the fence is, seemingly, dangerous.
Continue readingClara Sola (2021)
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A remarkable first feature (and Costa Rica’s Oscar submission), Nathalie Álvarez Mesén spins a lush and dark tale of the internal rage of a woman kept confined.
Continue readingKāinga (2022)
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The third in a trilogy of films raising the voices of women (after Waru (2017) and Vai (2019)), Kāinga (or home) gives us eight short films each focusing on a girl or woman from an Asian country trying to find her place in Aotearoa New Zealand. The connection between them, as the stories span decades, is the same house on 11 Rua Road where they all live or visit.
Continue readingPromising Young Woman (2020)
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I have been waiting for the release of this one for many months. The trailer is a cracker with a drunk Cassie (Carey Mulligan) being picked up a series of ‘nice guys’ who then sexually assault her in her comatose state.
Continue readingHappiest Season (2020)
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Christmas movies ideally should give us love and hope and not drown us in corn syrup. This queer Christmas rom-com has just enough tartness to balance the sugar.
Continue readingBabyteeth (2019)
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It’s refreshing to watch a ‘sick teen drama’ that avoids easy sentimentality and instead builds complex characters.
Continue readingMothering Sunday (2021)
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“How lucky, to be comprehensively bereaved at birth. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
Continue readingHow to Please a Woman (2022)
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A gentle and slightly awkward Australian comedy by Renée Webster that puts female pleasure in the centre of the story.
Continue readingEl Planeta (2021)
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This artful satire by writer/director/star Amalia Ulman almost works but I couldn’t help feeling I was missing the point.
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