Film Review: The Divine Order (2017)
byWritten by Ben Isbel Originally published 20 March 2018 Remember when women couldn’t vote? Of course not; it was 1908 when Victoria became the…
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Film Review: The Square (2017)
byWritten 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: Happy End (2017)
byWritten by Ben Isbel Originally published 12 February 2018 One of the true auteurs of cinema, Michael Haneke, returns to the screen with his dark comedy/family…
Film Review: The Wound (2017)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 11 February 2018 In his harrowing and quite controversial debut feature, South African director John Trengove has created…
Film Review: Faces Places (2017)
byWritten 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: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 18 January 2018 Having previously directed Studio Ghibli’s final film When Marnie Was There, Hiromasa Yonebayashi has returned…
Film Review: Slack Bay (2016)
byWritten by Amy Taylor Originally published 19 December 2017 Slack Bay (Ma Loute) is very difficult to categorise or to explain. Is it a…
Film Review: Sami Blood (2016)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 18 December 2017 The first feature film by writer-director Amanda Kernell raises subject matter that should be more…
Film Review: Just to be Sure (2017)
byWritten by Amy Taylor Originally published 17 December 2017 Just to be Sure (Ôtez-moi d’un Doute) is charming and funny, and perfectly timed for the…
Film Review: In this Corner of the World (2016)
byWritten by Nick Bugeja Originally published 6 December 2017 Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has experienced so much success that, in the public mind, it…