Jan
12
2024
Roald Dahl’s short story The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar concerns the titular Henry who, after reading an account of a Man Who Can See Without His Eyes, decides to learn the method, giving him superhuman abilities and even...
Oct
08
2022
Ex-cop Isaiah Slade (Nick McCallum) arrives in a small town, searching for the missing daughter of a murdered ranch owner in the movie Find Her. As his investigations continue, coming across a wide range of suspects each with their...
Apr
28
2022
The Souvenir Part II carries on from director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical film The Souvenir (2019), an account of her own experiences at film school and her destructive relationship with an older man, Anthony (Tom Burke), a manipulative heroin-addict.
Whilst...
Mar
15
2022
Part fable, part fairytale, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s arthouse folk-horror is a cautionary tale demonstrating the inevitable ascendency of the natural order. It also explores issues of motherhood, miracles, divine intervention and the hardships of living in harmony with nature.
María...
Dec
18
2021
A homeless man’s search for his lost dog brings him an unexpected friendship with a young boy and a renewed purpose in life.
Daniel (Diarmaid Murtagh) sleeps rough in a deserted lock-up. He lives an insular existence, anonymous amidst...
Sep
29
2021
Aneil Karia’s frenetic debut feature Surge is exactly that, a thrusting, pulsating journey through the city.
Joseph (Ben Whishaw) is a London airport security worker. Struggling with the boredom, loneliness and mundanity of his everyday existence he feels disconnected from...
Jul
25
2021
At a family event Danielle (Rachel Sennott), a directionless bisexual Jewish woman runs into her sugar-daddy Max (Danny Deferrari), who is accompanied by his wife and screaming baby. Her ex-girlfriend Maya (Molly Gordon) is also at the gathering.
Shiva...
Jun
17
2021
Last year, during the early days of the first lockdown, filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher decided to use up some expired film, the results of which she ended up making into a sensitive, short study of local inhabitants living around the...
Apr
04
2021
With the days getting longer and lockdown restrictions being relaxed, many of us are anticipating some much needed social interaction. Venturing outdoors, with fresh air in our lungs, feels like an especially great luxury. As we all know, food...
Feb
23
2021
Widespread infectious outbreak on a global scale is a subject frequently explored by generations of writers and filmmakers. Whether these stories stem from science-fiction or science-fact, the theoretical and biological feasibility of such rampant and uncontrollable disease bring these...
Feb
11
2021
A small town book-keeper and a bankrupt serial failure combine forces to try and find success with a startup business, from Europe to Silicon Valley - and back in Chasing Unicorns.
Let me begin by addressing a couple of...
