Film Review

In 2017, spurred on by winning the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Award, Amy Powney, creative director of Mother of Pearl, embarked on an ethical and creative odyssey to explore how sustainable her fashion house could become. Becky Hutner’s…

Environmental issues dominate our time, from political programmes, to news stories, to art. Unfortunately for the latter, much of this art feels more like a lecture than anything else. How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Daniel Goldhaber’s adaption…

"I do love a good audience" - Pearl A few years ago, director Ari Aster released Hereditary. His debut all-in feature is a horror of such immense depth, that after the credits roll it stays with you for a long time. Part of that…

On 3 November 1970, Salvador Allende, a Marxist physician, took office as the president of Chile. He would lead the Popular Unity coalition of Socialist, Communist, Radical and Social-Democratic parties with the support of other dissident…

I find Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom a surprisingly hard animal to quantify (is that a pun? Well if it is, it’s probably not worth calling attention to). While this Bhutanese drama initially follows the narratives of a city slicker in the…

When all is said and done and the last punch is thrown, one wonders if the monomyn Creed will have the same level of cultural caché as the ‘Rocky’ name. What would it take for the child to outshine its parent? Don’t get me wrong, 2015’s…

Mark Cousins discovers History in The March on Rome. His most cited work concerns the ever-expanding chronology and development of cinema, but I seldom come away from his work with an improved understanding of the milieu from of which our…

Ciné-Guerrillas suffers from a dearth of guerrillas. Director Mila Turajlic presents, as the film’s subtitle indicates, Scenes from the Labudovic Reels. Stevan Labudovic was a newsreel cameraman for Filmske novosti (Yugoslav Newsreels),…

When you have been a fan of horror and action cinema for a long time, it's easy to get jaded and dare I say, desensitised. You live for those moments where you can't believe the film is doing what it is. Be it heads crushed underfoot,…

Stay and forgive; stay and fight; leave. These are the choices faced by the Mennonite women at the centre of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. Eight women from three generations of two families have been nominated to make this decision for…