FIlm Review
Film Review: Emily the Criminal
America is perceived as the land of opportunity, but that’s only really true for certain people. 45 million Americans have student debt, with each graduate on average owing almost $40,000. That’s great for rich kids, not so much for those without wealthy parents. Having to start you career with a huge monthly outgoing is far …
Film Review: Fall
Most people, quite sensibly, are wary of heights. Many suffer from vertigo when peering down into the eternal abyss. Flying is another challenge. However, there are those who actively seek out daredevil challenges. Who laugh in the face of danger. Seeking out the toughest and most difficult climbs. Never happier than looking out from a …
Film Review: Let the Little Light Shine
Race relations in America are going through yet another turbulent time. Not since the civil rights movement of the 1960s have we seen so much police brutality and intolerance. While it doesn’t attract the same headlines, underlying institutional racism is just as pernicious. Indeed, it can often go unnoticed, attributed to something else entirely. Lingering …
Film Review: Blind Ambition
While wine has been with us in one form or another for thousands of years, today it’s a highly competitive industry which is worth a small fortune. The most sought-after labels go for eye-watering amounts of money at auction and the production process is closely guarded by the top vineyards. It’s one of the most …
Film Review: Where is Anne Frank
Anne Frank is probably the most famous diarist to have ever lived, even though she obviously never got to see her work published. A fact which is unlikely to escape your notice if you visit Amsterdam. Whilst easily the most discussed Jewish figure who lost their life during the Holocaust, the fact that Anne and …
Film Review: Fadia’s Tree
They say that home is where the heart it. This is not something most Europeans probably contemplate, but if you’re born in many parts of the world this idiom can have very different connotations. Some of us are privileged enough to have a country to call our own for our whole lives, however much it …
Film Review: Hyochondriac
It’s a condition which is often played for laughs in popular culture, but hypochondria is no joke. Regularly stigmatised as a ‘made-up illness’, this type of health anxiety is in fact very real. In essence, it describes the phenomenon where someone spends a significant amount of time worrying that they’re ill or will become it. …
Film Review: Hit the Road
It’s astonishing, in many ways, that Iranian filmmakers can still keep making top-tier cinema. With all the restrictions and censorship in place in the country, it’s a miracle that any films get made at all. Directors have to navigate a minefield of rules and regulations, which seem to be in perpetual flux. The worrying recent …
Film Review: Winter’s Yearning
Greenland (or Kalaallit Nunaat as it’s officially known) is the world’s largest island. The bulk of the land is uninhabitable, sparsely populated and with most of the 50,000 population clinging to the south western reaches of the country. It was part of the Kingdom of Denmark for almost three hundred years before being granted home …
Film Review – Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Most biographical documentaries approach their subject in a fairly standard and linear way. Normally, running through their life and work in chronological order, with friends, family and experts on hand to add some insight and move proceedings along. Especially when the focal point is no longer with us. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time comes at …