From the Palme d'Or-winning Shoplifters to Monster, Hirokazu Koreeda has long had a knack for finding extraordinary emotional depth in seemingly ordinary human relationships. With Look Back, the Japanese filmmaker…
This year’s London Film Festival has served as a platform for some truly compelling work. Around 240 films…
By Mersa AudaSet in rural Argentina, Paula tells the tale of a nanny for a wealthy, middle-class family. When she…
By Natasha FurlongChildren killing things is a rather popular subgenre at the moment, and Australian director Ariel Kleiman has jumped…
By Natasha FurlongThere has been much anticipation surrounding the release of Danny Boyle’s cinematic homage to Steve Jobs, not only…
By Mersa AudaTold over 30 years and in seven different languages, Colombian writer-director Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is…
By Isabelle MiltonComing straight from his acclaimed revenge thriller Blue Ruin, writer-director Jeremy Saulnier returns with another suspenseful and gritty…
By Joseph FraserDirected by Adam Bhala Lough, Hot Sugar’s Cold World follows Nick Koenig (aka Hot Sugar), a vanguard of…
By Anna PaulThe excellent A Monster with a Thousand Heads tackles the harsh realities of healthcare industry corruption, a timely…
By Mariana HowardIn 1965, famous author and playwright Samuel Beckett released his only film. Entitled simply Film, the work proved…
By Harriet ClugstonThe 59th edition of the London Film Festival has produced a vast array of films on a range…
By Melissa HobanA loose adaptation of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol’s 1969 classic, The Unfaithful Wife, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s feature is rife…
By Mae TrumataWhile discussions of migration tend to focus on young, single men, Laïla Marrakchi turns her attention to women…
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