Birds of Passage

I’m used to watching films take on the topic of drug trafficking. Generally, they’ve tended to tell an American story,…

Gloria Bell

I’ve had the song ‘Gloria‘ running around in my head for weeks now, since I saw Gloria Bell in fact. Yes,…

Sometimes high-concepts can be problematic; if the general conceit or development does not sit well within the established world of…

Settle in for our conversational review of The Sisters Brothers, Jacques Audiard’s adaptation of the novel by Patrick DeWitt. All three…

Happy as Lazzaro is the third feature from Italian director Alice Rohrwacher. It’s a strange film, outlining a tale of a callous…

If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to 2016’s Moonlight, is an adaptation of a 1974 James Baldwin novel of the same name. The…

Michael Inside (2017) written and directed by Frank Berry is a clear-eyed look at one young man’s journey to prison. The film…

At some point towards the end of Free Solo, a documentary charting Alex Honnold’s attempt to free climb Yosemite’s vertiginous El…

The Wife focuses on the comfortable theme of the wonderful women behind society’s ‘great men’. Except it doesn’t. Director Björn Runge…

The more distance I get from this film, the less I like it. First, a framing consideration. The arts are…