Review: Failure to Protect – “An eye-opening film”
Failure to protect refers to a law that can charge a parent for any lack of action that leads to harm of a child. It was a policy devised...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai – “Glorious to behold”
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai has had a fantastic 4K restoration and is due out on 4K UHD, Limited Edition UHD...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Barbie – “A magical fever dream”
The trailers for Barbie – and everything that that bright and colourful marketing campaign brought to our attention – has only scratched...
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: Evil Does Not Exist is Tantalisingly Obscure
The title Evil Does Not Exist conjures many possibilities – all equally dramatic. Is this a film about religion? An intense...
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: Foe Almost Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Author Iain Reid (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) never shies away from questioning what it means to be a man. With Foe, he expands his...
Read MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Strays, The Haunted Mansion, ALF, The Mist, The Wicker Man, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and more
We’ve got a wide-ranging slate of titles hitting shelves this week, including some recent box office hits, some cool catalogue titles, and...
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: Shortcomings – “Randall Park’s directorial debut about young Asian Americans evokes the spirit of 90s slacker comedies”
Actor Randall Park’s directorial debut Shortcomings about young Asian Americans in Berkeley evokes the spirit of 90s slacker comedies....
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: All Of Us Strangers – “A beautifully tender supernatural romantic drama.”
Past and present live side by side in Andrew Haigh’s beautifully tender supernatural romantic drama. The film is based on the 1987 book...
Read MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: The Boogeyman, Loki, Yellowjackets, What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Natural Born Killers and more
This isn’t the week for huge blockbuster releases, but we do get some new horror offerings for the Halloween month as well as some...
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: Power Alley (Levante) – “The film is a rallying call for bodily autonomy and queer sisterhood”
Intersectional feminist solidarity fights back hard against religious conservatism in this confronting debut feature by Brazilian director...
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