The Big Sick

A new adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same name as opposed to a remake of the ’71 Clint Eastwood vehicle, The Beguiled is a mesmerising drama from Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Bling Ring) for which she won Best Director at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In the American Civil War, an injured Union soldier […]

At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that

In Beginners, director Mike Mills offered up a loving portrait of his father. This time it’s the turn of his mother and Annette Bening gives a barnstorming, career-best performance as Dorothea Fields, flawlessly delivering zingers like “Wondering if you’re happy is just a shortcut to being depressed”. Unvarnished and oozing charisma, Bening radiates in this […]

Following their festival smashes Rumba and Fairy, Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon are back with the whimsical Lost in Paris. Told in their signature vaudeville style, Lost in Paris is a wonderfully composed comedy that evokes the physical humour of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton. After receiving a letter from her visually impaired (and ever […]