By Matthew Riordan Directors: Remy Bennett and Emilie Richard-Froozan The name ‘Buttercup Bill’ rings with a childlike innocence. In many ways it is the perfect title for Remy Bennett and Emilie Richard-Froozan’s feature-length debut, a film […]
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By Hannah Drennan Directed by Barmak Akram It’s certainly surprising when we hear the protagonist – a young Afghan girl – ask her mother “what shall I wear?” and perhaps even more unexpected is her mother’s […]
Directed by Naeem Mahmood and Ash Mahmood Naeem and Ash Mahmood’s Brash Young Turks is a brazen and restless crime drama about a brazen and restless generation. Built to be a hyper-sensory experience of fast and […]
By David Pountain Directed by Jake Mahaffy Venice Film Festival review In the Old Testament’s Book of Job, the consistently devout eponymous man, after suffering a horrendous series of undeserved misfortunes, is forced to accept that the […]
By David Pountain Directed by Florin Serban Toronto International Film Festival review Cinema today would be in a better state if more filmmakers went into their projects with the same attentive curiosity that Florin Serban […]
By Rebecca Rowson Director: Hans Herbots Ugly and unsettling, The Treatment explores some of the most horrific crimes that are committed. Thankfully, the clinical treatment of the issue prevents the film from blurring the line between […]