Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film Club, we revisit Brady Corbet’s …
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Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching
David Lowery's chamber piece about a pop star and her erstwhile costume designer is a strange, haunting affair. Hauntings have been a presenc…
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Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of video game mechanics to cinema
A popular 2023 video game receives a big screen transformation thanks to filmmaker Genki Kawamura. Although the settings and specific genre trapp…
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Leonora in the Morning Light review – too many blank patches on the canvas
The tumultuous life story of Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington is somewhat explored in this gorgeously-shot biopic. In 2024, Surrealist artis…
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Mark Jenkin: ‘I like looking backwards in order to move forwards’
Fish-gutting lessons, seasickness and Cornish notions of home play into the writer/director’s superlative third feature. The devil is in the deta…
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Preliminary Visions of a Girl-Online
Dana Dawud's extremely online (but IRL) screening series, Open Secret, is all access, but little revelation. As AI – algorithms, image gener…
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Michael review – legacy management 101
This squeaky-clean, PR-driven chronicle of Michael Jackson’s life up to the release of the 1987 album Bad reaffirms his god-like genius and plays …
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Ultras review – shoots and scores
Ragnhild Ekner explores the mega phenomenon of football fan culture in this thoughtfully-crafted, passionate documentary. Swedish filmmaker Ragnh…
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Rediscovering Singapore's first action heroine
The crime-fighting, gun-toting lead of 1978's They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong was nearly lost forever. A new restoration celebrates her overlo…
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Rose of Nevada review – a gorgeous Cornish time-travel yarn
Mark Jenkin's third feature film, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner as fishermen whose lives go awry, is a moving tale of personal vers…
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Departures review – the turbulent journey of trauma with no arrival
Two sub/dom men explore sex and power through shameless trysts to Amsterdam in Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely’s hypersexual drama. Like boarding …
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Lee Cronin's The Mummy | Miroirs No. 3 | The Blue Trail
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, and Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail. Joini…
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review – rotten to the core
The filmmaker behind the excellent Evil Dead Rise comes a-cropper in this incoherent and flabby possession horror where mummies amount to an incon…
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Diamanti review – a joyful meta-melodrama celebrating female actors
Filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek underscores his own contributions to this lively 1970s-set melodrama charting a group of seamstresses as they produce cos…
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How Beef shines a light on the pitfalls of reproductive healthcare
The second season of A24 and Netflix’s highly acclaimed drama eloquently demonstrates how healthcare inequality can derail your life. This articl…
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Miroirs No. 3 review – no one is doing it like Petzold
German director Christian Petzold delivers once again with this deviously-structured psychodrama starring his current muse, Paula Beer. When sad-…
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Cannes 2026 announces its sidebar line-ups
The full programme for this year's festival is complete with programme announcements from Director's Fortnight, Critic's Week and L…
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