The rom-com has fallen into a very specific set of circumstances that it cannot seem to escape from. It’s a genre that essentially ran the early 2000’s, yet up until recently, they could rarely be found. Luckily, in the past few years, there seems to be not so much of a resurgence of the genre, […]
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PEARL Has Mia Goth Stunningly Capture The Horror Of Failure
After a 6 year hiatus from feature films, Ti West burst back onto the big screen with his highly acclaimed X, a throwback to the grimy horror films of the 1970’s. As an added treat to audiences who finished the film thinking, “I want more”, the surprise teaser for a follow-up, Pearl, blessed audiences. Very […]
MOONAGE DAYDREAM Highlights David Bowie And His Endearing Mystique
Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is unlike any documentary you may have seen. A large reason for this is because calling it a documentary seems like a disservice. After all, anything surrounding the enigma that is David Bowie is bound to exist somewhere outside the usual lines. Instead, Moonage Daydream serves audiences a multi-medium portrait of […]
BODIES BODIES BODIES Is Neon-Tinged Slasher Fun Done Right
It must be quite a shock to the system whenever someone describes a horror film as deliriously fun. Yet for fans of the genre, there’s nothing better than diving into something that can be described as such. Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies fits into that category with flying colors (literally). Equal parts slasher-horror and flatt-out […]
I LOVE MY DAD Is A Twisted (And Fun) Look At Empathy
For many viewers, cinema can be a form of therapy. Film allows its audience to work through certain issues in our lives without necessarily confronting them directly. The same can be said for filmmakers on the other side of the screen. And this inverse therapy is exactly what appears in James Morosini’s feature, I Love […]
SKIES OF LEBANON Is Gorgeous Yet Heartbreaking
Beginning with documentary style footage of Lebanon, Chloé Mazlo’s debut feature, Skies of Lebanon, takes the form of a family home movie. Set during the Lebanese Civil War and inspired by the life stories of Mazlo’s grandmother, what follows is a film with a family at its core. It’s a family that is fractured, yet […]