How is the romantic film genre changing? Find out, as editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith discuss a recent trend of films about the finite nature of romances – including site favourites On Chesil Beach, Call Me By Your Name, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and more.
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Sundance ’20 review: Aggie is a documentary about allyship
Catherine Gund’s Aggie is both a celebration of an extraordinary woman, and a call to arms for the viewer to think about how they too can enact change.
Sundance ’20 review: Romola Garai’s Amulet
Gothic horror Amulet is a promising directorial debut from actress Romola Garai, but the screenplay is too ambitious for its own good.
Ep. 28: 1917 and Jarhead — Sam Mendes’ war films
1917 is an awards favourite, but its blocking is the real reason we wanted to discuss it. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney is joined by Associate Editor Brett Pardy and special guest Debbie Zhou
Les Misérables and Just Mercy use classic texts to explore systemic racism
Rather than positioning Les Misérables and Just Mercy as retellings, Ladj Ly and Destin Daniel Cretton engage with modern France’s and America’s relationships to classic texts.
Sundance Review: Charter is psychologically complex
Amanda Kernell’s second feature, Charter, toys with the reliability of the protagonist’s perspective, who is herself uncertain, in this psychologically complex study of a broken family.