Director: Terence Davies London Film Festival 2021 review Mortality permeates the air in Benediction, a powerfully sombre work where each moment seems to mourn its own passing. As with 2016’s excellent Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet […]
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Director: Edgar Wright London Film Festival 2021 review For better or worse, the genre films of Edgar Wright have always felt like they’re being delivered to us within a pair of quotation marks. Ever since his days at the […]
Director: Todd Haynes London Film Festival 2021 review Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground opens with a 1963 clip from the US gameshow I’ve Got a Secret. In it a young Welsh composer-musician by the name of John […]
Director: Julia Ducournau London Film Festival 2021 review In their most visceral moments, Julia Ducournau’s films deliver the kind of violence and grotesquerie that can make a seasoned horror fan feel human again, proving that even the last […]
Director: Hajime Tsuda Queer East Film Festival 2021 review Through its story of two housemates feeling their way through the consequences and demands of an unplanned pregnancy, Hajime Tsuda’s Daughters captures that identity-forming period in […]
Director: Tsukasa Kishimoto Watch The Man Who Changed Okinawa on FilmDoo One man’s training is another man’s torture. Based on the true story of local legend Hiroyoshi Sai, the coach who led an Okinawan school baseball team […]