Jon Stevenson’s Rent-A-Pal examines the videotape dating culture of the 1990s in this retro horror film. The film follows David (Brian Landis Folkins), a lonely single guy taking care of his mother who has dementia. In an effort to find…
Kicking off right after the Sydney Film Festival made their historic turn towards making their annual cinematic celebration a digital banquet, the Melbourne International Film Festival – cheekily credited as 68½ edition – gave an online platform to a myriad…
The late Kiarostami’s protegé Ahmad Bahrami returns with The Wasteland (Dashte Khamoush), a moody drama following the plight of a bricklaying factory in the middle of Iranian desert backwater. source: Venice Film Festival As part of the 77th Venice Film…
Queerly Ever After is a bi-monthly column where I take a look at LGBT+ films that gave their characters a romantic happily-ever-after. There will be spoilers. I am going to preface my review of the broad culture-clash comedy Mambo Italiano…
I find Mulan to be a fascinating case study in terms of reviewing a film based on existing source material. Depending on how you grew up with the story, you could identify it as either the most enduring Chinese folktale…
Opening this historic 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival is Andrea Segre’s Molecole, a haunting meditation on virus-lockdown Venice. As part of the Biennale’s Out of Competition slate, Molecole was presented as the pre-opening film of the festival, a fitting…
Director Jeff Orlowski is known for his acclaimed documentaries Chasing Ice and Chasing Choral, films which lucidly capture the rapid erosion of Earth’s glaciers and barrier reefs. For his latest feature The Social Dilemma, he focuses on our broken world…
Things have gone well past thinking of ending things in Blackbird, the latest from director Roger Michell. Lily doesn’t have long no matter what she does. She’s terminally ill, but instead of waiting for an unspecified expiry date she’s set one…
Welcome to 4:3 & Forgotten — a weekly column in which Rob Hunter and I get to look back at TV terrors that scared adults (and the kids they let watch) across the limited airwaves of the ’70s. This week’s movie is 1979’s…
Welcome to World Builders, our ongoing series of conversations with the most productive and thoughtful behind-the-scenes craftspeople in the industry. In this entry, we chat with cinematographer Michael Watson about balancing the unreal with the very real horrors of Lovecraft…