In an age of what sometimes feels like a deluge of streaming documentaries about celebrities, Charli XCX has taken a different route, instead offering a mockumentary behind the brat tour that satirises corporate manufacturing, artistic autonomy (or lack thereof) and when the commercial takes over the art, amongst other things. It is an interesting idea…
The BAFTAs once again proved themselves to be definitively their own entity, that, whilst a core part of the overall awards season and seen by many in some ways as an indicator for the Oscars, are still willing to go their own way when it comes to some big awards. The biggest surprise of the…
More than seven years after the brilliantly fresh American Animals, Bart Layton returns to the big screen with another stylish crime thriller. More exciting than its title suggests, Crime 101 is a slick and entertaining effort that throws back to a bygone era. The film weaves together the lives of three characters as they become…
After months of speculation and pre-film discourse, Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” has arrived in cinemas and it is unfortunately everything that was feared and more. Ostensibly adapted from Emily Brontë’s classic novel, the film centres on Cathy Earnshaw (as an adult, Margot Robbie), a young girl living with her father on the Yorkshire moors, with only household…
A gritty, decisively modern prison drama, Wasteman offers a violent and believable look inside that is brought to life by strong performances and the clever use of iPhone footage. We meet Taylor (David Jonsson), a drug addict man in a prison under pressure who finds out he is eligible for early parole if he keeps…
Ah the cinema, that famously social activity where you enter a dark room and sit in complete silence for a couple of hours. People are afraid to do a lot of things alone, and the cinema seems to sit high on that list for many. It is reductive to say that there aren’t social benefits…
Sam Raimi returns to dip his toes back into a genre he knows so well with this disgustingly entertaining and original horror-comedy. Prepare to be pulled in and then compelled to look away. The film follows Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams), an overworked and underappreciated numbers-cruncher in the corporate world who is othered and pushed around…
Finally arriving in cinemas over a year after its Sundance premiere and now with a slew of Best Actress nominations for Rose Byrne in tow, Mary Bronstein’s black comedy-drama about motherhood is a personal tale of nightmarish proportions. We are thrown into the life of Linda (Byrne), a therapist whose husband is away long-term for…
Unusually arriving before the BAFTA nominations (we’ll see how those shake out next week), the nominations for the pinnacle prize of Awards Season have finally been announced. In what has been a fairly steady and predictable season so far, there aren’t too many major snubs or surprises that haven’t been alluded to in the precursors;…
Reuniting with his Worst Person in the World star, Renate Reinsve, Joachim Trier returns with a delicate yet raw portrait of family dynamics that serves as a reminder than within each family unit, every individual is also a world unto themselves. We meet Nora (Renate Reinsve), an actress, and her sister, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), as their…
