An explosion of sound and colour from the second it starts, the sophomore feature film of Baz Poonpiriya, One For The Road, has nods to its producer, Kar-Wai Wong within the opening sequence. It feels like a film that loves movies, lending every…
The ethics of documentary filmmaking are hard to navigate when telling stories as sensitive and urgent as Flee. Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary takes to protecting identities through animation, an often-underused art form in non-fiction storytelling. It’s innovative and compact, at only 83 minutes…
Ed Helms is Daddy? Not something you hear every day, but in Nicole Beckwith's second film, Together Together, Helms stars as Matt, a single father-to-be through the surrogacy system. Anna (Patti Harrison), who is twenty years his junior, applies for the role…
Brandon Cronenberg's sophomore feature is Possessor, a gruesome sci-fi thriller starring Andrea Riseborough as Tasya, an agent working for an underground assassin organisation that uses technology to inhabit people's bodies. After an opening sequence to establish how the technology works, the film…
In December 2010, the residents of the mining town, Empire Nevada, were given till June to find a new residence amid a recession. The zip code 89405 ceases to exist, and this is where Chloé Zhao's Nomadland begins. Based on the non-fiction book by…
Christian Petzold's Undine, stars Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski in his experimental romance film with a supernatural and mythological twist. Beer plays Undine, a freelance historian with an affinity for Berlin's urban development who catches the eye of Christoph (Rogowski) when he…
Natalie Erika James burst onto the feature-length scene with Relic, a 90-minute horror that features Bella Heathcote, Emily Mortimer and Robyn Nevin as three generations of women. Being well-versed in the genre, previously having directed two short-horrors, James showcases her skill right…
Miranda July is unparalleled in her ability to explore intimacy in the most unique and captivating way. Her work, spanning back to the nineties covers a variety of mediums from performance, to books, to art, to film. She has covered all bases…
Craig Zobel's 2020 foray has crept up silently, upon our doorsteps without us ever stopping to notice its release. The Hunt seemingly came from nowhere, appearing to materialise one day through word of mouth carrying simultaneous buzz of outrage and exhilaration. Betty…
The Bad Boys are back and directors, Adil and Bilall, waste no time capturing the exhilaration of squealing tires on concrete, shoot-outs and all the things expected when Will Smith and Martin Lawrence come together. They find their esoteric rhythm and chemistry…
"Each of us is more than the worst thing that we've ever done," Michael B. Jordan stands tall in a U.S. Senate Committee Hearing, echoing those very words. These words are the manifesto of Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer and founder of…
Gerwig jumps unafraid into the retelling of a classic, one that has graced the big
screen many a time, and grabs it with all her might from the first minute. Like her
heroine, Jo March, Gerwig had a wall of scepticism built for her…
Hangover director, Todd Phillips, takes a trip to the dark side with Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker, DC’s best loved villain. He’s a single man living with his sick mother, working full-time as a kid’s party clown at Haha’s in Gotham City.…
Hobbs & Shaw is 2019’s addition to the well revered Fast & Furious franchise. It’s clear from its crowd-pleasing dialogue and ridiculous scenes (where the time of day changes every two minutes even though it’s one continuous sequence) that this is a…