Lebanese director Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya channels the frenetic energy of Beirut in his highly enjoyable debut feature Very Big Shot. Split into two distinctively d...
Joy is a small-stakes story told with the highest of energy. Over his last few films, David O. Russell has looked further inward, pushing his ensemble screwball...
Three college-age women on holiday break decide to abandon a quiet evening of Scrabble and pot-smoking when party girl Cali (Alexandra Turshen) insist they cras...
The last decade has seen dozens of cinematic stories directly and indirectly affected by the 2007-08 financial crisis, but with the exception of Inside Job, non...
Boy and the World is the animated Playtime that you never knew you wanted. Like Jacques Tati’s masterpiece, Boy and the World is a plea for the world to reclaim...
Let’s hear it again for Dame Maggie Smith. Although she’s captured audience attention playing all manner of fussy upper-crust elitists, including Downton Abbey’...
Rarely do films highlight the nuances of a guarded society so efficiently that it, in turn, gives one a wholly new perspective on the culture of a country. Such...
The history of Hollywood’s distortion of and digression from the facts of supposed ‘true stories’ is long and infamous. Any movie that claims to be “based on a ...
A particular sub-set of travel horror exists to scare people away from real-life attractions with no regard for whether any threat actually exists. Films such a...
A suitcase clanks back and forth over the barren streets of Busan, spilling its contents as its owner desperately tries to stuff them back inside. This chaotic ...
