Film Review: The Third Wife (2018)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 8 July 2019 The title of Ash Mayfair’s debut film, The Third Wife , evokes the dehumanising, commodified…
Film Review: Fishbowl California (2018)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 12 November 2018 Fishbowl California is a tale of two very different lives intersecting at a time of…
Film Review: Jumpman (2018)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 11 November 2018 Jumpman gets its title from the main activity around which the film is framed: a…
Film Review: What Will People Say (2017)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 11 July 2018 Iram Haq’s What Will People Say is a harrowingly personal film. Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) is…
Film Review: Back to Burgundy (2017)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 2 July 2018 “You like wine, then you make wine,” says Jean (Pio Marmaï) to his beleaguered sister,…
Film Review: 1945 (2017)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 25 March 2018 It should come as no surprise that Ferenc Török’s 1945 takes place in 1945, at…
Film Review: The Square (2017)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 25 February 2018 Christian (Claes Bang) is a top curator at a renowned contemporary art museum in Stockholm….
Film Review: Faces Places (2017)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 24 January 2018 On the face of it, filmmaker Agnès Varda and artist JR make an improbable team….
Film Review: The Florida Project (2017)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 17 December 2017 For many of us, childhood is the most wonderful of times. It’s when our curiosity…
Film Review: In this Corner of the World (2016)
Written by Nick Bugeja Originally published 6 December 2017 Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has experienced so much success that, in the public mind, it…