Film Review: Some Kind of Heaven
Located in central Florida, The Villages is the largest retirement community in the world. On the face of it this shiny happy ‘Disneyland for retirees’ seems like some kind of…
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Blu-Ray Review: Giants and Toys
The Allied occupation of Japan ended in 1952 and much of this period was devoted to rebuilding lost industrial capacity and moving towards a democratic society. Whilst poverty was still…
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Film Review: Paper Spiders
Mental health, or the lack of it, was probably the biggest challenge facing health authorities across the First World even before the pandemic hit. The issue has become even more…
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Film Review: Betrayed
While every country which was occupied by the Nazis during World War II collaborated and accepted German authority to differing extents, not many (if any) came out of looking particularly…
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Film Review: Cowboys
Whilst much of today’s dialogue around trans rights is toxic and couched in the homophobic rhetoric of the 1970s and 1980s, slowly but surely more and more people seem to…
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Film Review: Apples
Hot on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis and spearheaded by Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, the Greek ‘weird wave’ has been one of the more unlikely cinematic movements of the…
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Film Review: Charlatan
Whilst never receiving the credit she undoubtedly deserves Agnieszka Holland has enjoyed a long and illustrious career. Born shortly after the end of World War II, she began her career…
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Film Review: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot
Throughout history the world has been full of mythical and legendary creatures. Whilst most have been widely debunked by science and technology, there are some which still remain popular amongst…
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Film Review: Beast Beast
Whilst Millennials regularly come in for a proverbial good kicking when any vaguely young person does something stupid, Gen-Z are probably suffering the most at the moment. What with COVID…
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Hot Docs Review: The Spokeswoman
Around twenty-five million Mexicans self-identify as being indigenous, that’s something like twenty percent of the population. And though it’s taken several centuries to recover, the numbers are roughly what they…
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