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[Venice Review] Beasts of No Nation

If there were any question marks still floating over Cary Fukunaga’s credentials, his latest film, Beasts of No Nation, should flick them aside with ease. Based...

[Venice Review] Everest

Curtain raisers seldom come more bombastic than the last two films to open the Venice Film Festival, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity in 2013, and Alejandro González Iñ...

[Review] When Animals Dream

Horror – primarily quality horror - has undergone major changes over the past decade in its approach to depicting the age-old conflict of man versus the Other. ...

[Review] The Second Mother

The first thing to announce itself in The Second Mother is an insistence on never losing sight of Val (Regina Casé), the maid, chef, and occasional surrogate pa...

[Review] No Escape

Violence is a true horror in No Escape, a gripping microcosm of inhumanity set during a brutal coup d’état. Director John Erick Dowdle has a knack for placing a...

[Review] We Are Your Friends

Let it be so, 2015 is the year of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) in film. Earlier this summer, we were given Eden, a little-seen but much-loved chronicle of a Fre...

[TIFF Review] Born to Dance

Apparently kids from Baltimore to County Durham to Auckland have the same problem: parents just don’t understand. So little has changed since Will Smith and DJ ...