Director Paige Bethmann gives us the gentle story of Ku Stephens, a young runner from the Pailute people in Nevada.
Continue readingRemaining Native (2025)
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The Legend of Ochi (2025)
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Should we hold children’s films up to the same standard as adult films? That’s what I was left asking myself after this super-saturated fable that felt like Wes Anderson meets Disney meets a Grimm’s fairy tale.
Continue readingThe Mastermind (2025)
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I really love Kelly Reichardt films. Even the ones that don’t seem to be about anything, like Showing Up (2022), somehow draw me in with the beauty of moments and the delicate journey of quite ordinary characters.
Continue readingWicked (2024)
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You know life is tough when you’re in Melbourne for the weekend and you run out of films to see at the Cinema Nova because you’ve already seen them all.
Continue readingNosferatu (2024)
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I’ll admit upfront that I’m not a fan of the films of Robert Eggers. I didn’t mind The Witch, although I found the ending laughable which was a shame as it had a great mood, but I really hated The Northman and The Lighthouse and so when I heard that he had remade Nosferatu, I had mixed feelings.
Continue readingThe Room Next Door (2024)
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I have a patchy relationship with Pedro Almodóvar. From loving his early films, I lost my way with some of his more recent dry melodramas, like Julieta. He won me back though with Pain and Glory and so I was tentatively excited to see his latest.
Continue readingDrive-Away Dolls (2024)
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It’s a swing and a miss from Ethan Coen‘s first solo film without his brother Joel.
Continue readingEverything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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I expected a kaleidoscope of kick-ass Michelle Yeoh martial arts awesomeness and got that and much more.
Continue readingAnora (2024)
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It has been about a week since I saw this latest film from Sean Baker (The Florida Project) and I still feel suffused with its sad beauty.
Continue readingA Real Pain (2024)
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I didn’t expect to feel quite so gutted by what seemed to be an ‘odd couple in Poland’ navel-gazing by Jesse Eisenberg.
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