‘Foe’ Review: Sci-Fi Romances Fails to Launch
Take two of the best Irish actors working today and make them use American accents. Take a compelling premise about the intervention of climate change in domestic life and make…
Review: How To Have Sex
Content Warning: Assault Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature film How to Have Sex plays like a memory. Among the comforting sleaze of sweaty Boohoo bikinis and strobe lights of the Malia…
Shoresy: Canadian hockey comedy will “never lose again.”
In 2022, Jared Keeso – creator and star of the cult hit Letterkenny – announced that Canadian streaming service Crave would be launching a new Letterkenny spinoff called Shoresy. Reactions were mixed. Fears were widespread that…
Review: Silence
As much as I love Marty, I began to see something is missing in his take on Shūsaku Endō’s novel Chinmoku when I revisited his epic film for the first time since…
Dumb Money
Dumb Money doesn’t go ‘to the moon’ If I had a nickel for every time in the last five years that Paul Dano played a forum user who, through charisma…
El Conde Review: Pablo Larrain revisits Pinochet – this time with vampires
Jaime Vadell stands between Dracula and Lear as vampire-turned-dictator Augusto Pinochet. In 2012, Chilean director Pablo Larrain achieved international fame with his political drama No, a documentary-style look at the 1988 advertisement campaign that deposed dictator Augusto Pinochet. Now, ten years later, Larrain returns…
Review: Passages
It is a rare achievement to convey the weight and complexities of intimacy (emotional and sexual) with both grace and honesty; one which Ira Sachs’ most recent endeavour, Passages, attains with…
Review: Saint Omer
CW: Infanticide Saint Omer is a film directed by Alice Diop about the trial of a young mother who is accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter. We follow Rama (Kayije…