Film Review

Rungano Nyoni's I Am Not a Witch is a cautionary fairytale that warns of the dangers of mob mentality and how that can adversely affect individual freedom. A surreal dark comedy that deftly weaves absurdity with tragedy in a deadpan style…

It’s difficult to know just how much stock should be given to the choice of year in which Too Late to Die Young is set. Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s third feature takes place in 1990, not long after Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet…

Birds of Passage is a gangster film. Yet, by being set in a culture unfamiliar to many Western viewers, directors Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego (Embrace of the Serpent) expand the scope of what movies of the genre can do. Set in the late…

“Star Trek is just a TV show!” “So was Brideshead Revisited!” “You’re angry, so I’m going to ignore that.” - Frasier (‘Star Mitzvah’) 26 years ago, a new Star Trek show, Deep Space Nine, launched, going where no Trek show had gone before –…

Jo Pil-ho (Sun Kyun-lee) is the worst dirty cop you’ve ever seen. You’d think leading a double life would teach him to be careful, but he sees no harm in meeting his shady underworld contacts in broad daylight, telling brazen lies to his…

Some of the buzz around High Life, writer-director Claire Denis' first English language film, would have you believe that's it's either a kooky, kinkier Barbarella or a traditional thriller in space. In fact, High Life is just as severe and…

Video game movies have always had a rough track record, particularly when translated to live-action. At best, most have been sub par and even the ones that are remembered fondly are mostly enjoyed ironically. Pokémon has had more than its…

There have been many attempts to capture the essence of Ted Bundy. However in 2019, 30 years after his execution, director Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost) has completed his two-part project on the most infamous of serial killers. First came…

Climate change is not a subject many would associate with whimsy, but with the Icelandic Woman at War, writer-director Benedikt Erlingsson has tried to apply a lightness of touch to a story about coming mass extinction. Halla (Halldóra…

As acclaimed indie film director Jim Jarmusch once said: “Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.” The rom-com is not a dead genre but it has been sorely tested by clichés and overused tropes. This means that romantic…