Director: Brandon Cronenberg London Film Festival 2020 review Bringing new meaning to the phrase, “corporations are people,” Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is a dazzling evocation of late-stage capitalism’s all-consuming reach, not just for how it taps […]
Director: Cathy Brady London Film Festival 2020 review The past is never really past in Cathy Brady’s turbulent feature debut, which blends the personal with the political for a thematically rich portrayal of lasting trauma in the long shadow […]
Director: Elizabeth Lo London Film Festival 2020 review In showing us a world and a way of life that runs parallel to our own, Elizabeth Lo’s Stray resonates as a multifaceted piece of socio-political commentary nestled within an immersive and […]
Writer-director Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film of rare patience and clarity, imbuing the wandering existence of 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) and her 1994 Seoul environment with understated mood and a vivid sense […]
Director: Terrence Malick London Film Festival 2019 review Though the metaphysical cinema of Terrence Malick has often suggested a God’s-eye view of the universe, the legendary director has rarely granted his own characters such a transcendent sense […]
What begins as a claustrophobic study of a restless shut-in’s daily solitude ultimately blooms into an absurdity-tinged story of courage and self-actualisation in the comical and compassionate Love Me Tender. As the socially stunted Seconda (Barbara Giordano) […]
