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[Review] The Lady in the Van

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’...

[Marrakech Review] Paradise

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...

[Review] In the Heart of the Sea

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 ...

[Review] Indigenous

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...

[Marrakech Review] Steel Flower

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 ...

[Review] The World of Kanako

Anti-hero is too light a word for the lead of The World of Kanako. A hard-drinking, tortured, virulent ex-cop thrown into an underworld of sociopathy and system...

[Review] The Revenant

After (mostly) constricting themselves to the confines of a single building in Birdman, director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezk...