Oscars

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…

“It was either going to be massive or it was going to be nothing” - Roger Taylor, Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody', one of the most celebrated songs in the history of music, is utterly unique. With the recent biopic bagging 4 awards at the…

About a quarter of the way through this exemplary debut documentary, we are given one of the film’s trademark, free-flowing sequences. Bing Liu’s handheld camera follows the skateboarding exploits of Zack and Kerri as they manoeuvre their…

Dear Menstruators, In the course of just one short month we have had the launch of a period emoji and a documentary all about periods, Period. End of Sentence, won an Oscar. One can only conclude that periods are finally going…

The Oscars are quite literally just around the corner with only hours to go and I, personally, have never been more excited and equally anxious about anything in a while. After a lot of time spent digesting each of the movies, I truly…

Mark Conroy indulges in his annual act of oracle-like analysis with his Oscar predictions 2019. Best Picture What Will Win: Roma What Should Win: Roma This year’s best picture race is probably the most open in well over a…

With Vice, director Adam McKay has strengthened and perfected his ‘bio/docu/com’ style of political biopic. Eschewing the usual Oscar bait candy floss structure, McKay creates a version of Dick Cheney that seems just as comfortable segueing…

Mudbound didn’t do what they’d hoped it would. Netflix won’t let that happen again. It’s not easy to gauge just how well Mudbound did or didn’t do at the Academy Awards this year. After a strong reception at 2017’s Sundance, the period…

This article contains spoilers. “It makes me want to love,” a young woman said behind me as we were leaving the theater after a showing of Call Me by Your Name. She was a stranger and she wasn’t even talking to me. I turned to her and…

The adjective that often comes up when discussing the movies of Asghar Farhadi is human. Between his subtle direction, the masterful turns he mines from his frequent acting collaborators and the three-dimensional characters he writes –…