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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Review: Scrapper

The British film industry has found its latest trend: writer/directors named Charlotte whose debut features centre on father-daughter relationships and balance their deeper heartache with the wonder of childhood. Charlotte…