Director: Camilla Strøm Henriksen The darkly ironic title of Norwegian drama Phoenix is a cliché employed by unstable mother Astrid (Maria Bonnevie) as she envisions an upward trajectory to follow her current emotional slump. But as […]
Author: David Pountain
In the darkly comic History of Nipples, Ron Burt (Joseph Macnab) falls down an existential rabbit hole pondering a question that all of us have asked at some point in our lives: What are men’s […]
Director: Marc Collin Musician, record producer, and filmmaker Marc Collin puts his geekery on full display in Shock of the Future, a quietly immersive period drama that takes pleasure in ogling the classic album covers of Giorgio […]
Director: Kim Yoon-seok Fantasia International Film Festival 2019 review True to its title, Kim Yoon-seok’s Another Child sees the sudden birth of an unplanned baby whose place in the world feels uncertain and ill-defined. And […]
Director: Ken Ninomiya Fantasia International Film Festival 2019 review From its hyper-saturated colour scheme to its EDM-fuelled montages, Chiwawa owes a clear debt to 2012’s Spring Breakers – one that director Ken Ninomiya seems to openly […]
Director: Naziha Arebi In Naziha Arebi’s Freedom Fields, the passage of time is marked by the number of years that have elapsed since the Libyan revolution. Over the course of half a decade, the documentary […]