Reviews

TW: Sexual Assault, R*pe, the UK Justice System On the surface, this play is quite one dimensional - incredibly predictable, even. You know, even just from the warnings, what is about to happen. The play doesn’t need to surprise you to make you think, though. The story becomes

There aren’t really ever going to be enough stories about addiction - but there certainly aren’t enough that are unglossed, unfiltered, and grounded the way that ‘The Outrun’ is. Aside from beautiful cinematography, and a star turn from Saoirse Ronan, the story is a patient one, and it

Jesse asks, what does it mean to “feel your feelings”? From every angle - from the ancestral wound all the way down to the familial bond - from personal despair to community responsibility, what do we owe one another? And what do we suppress to ensure we keep the social

I don’t need to hear rapturous applause or raving reviews in the lobby to know a film’s importance. Dahomey serves a very specific, very important, very beautiful purpose - to document the moment the Beninoise got 26 of their Treasures back from the French, and the conversation they

Light Spoilers below. If you have South American heritage, this story will make sense to you. If you moved around a lot, this film will make sense to you. If you have lost someone this story will resonate with you. Los Tortuga/The Exiles deals with a family tree’s

Light spoilers below. For those of us who have roots in or have experienced life in those parts of the world that are labeled ‘third world countries’ the experiences of the protagonists are nothing new. Corruption is ‘daily bread’ (that is a call-back to the title cards in the movie)

Famed Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto has made his feature debut, adapting ‘Pedro Páramo’, a story that influenced Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Realism. I have a hard time keeping track of characters in Magical Realist stories, and the film was no exception — in its fidelity to the source material, it left

Do not see this film if you cannot watch Body Horror or Gore. This is not a mild movie - there is more gore, guts, blood and mess than there is dialogue. Please, please, please, don’t see it if you can’t handle that. This is a film about