They Will Kill You opens with a happy family gathered around a dining table. Two young sisters stand out in the dark and the pouring rain, looking in at this alluring shop display. They are excluded from its ideal, not just by...
From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating...
When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more...
“What if rainbows were people from the future travelling in time?” is the sort of tagline that will make many...
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness...
Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it...
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not...
At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps...
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,...
In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps...
