Movies
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Bunker – first-look review | Little White Lies
“Even the most beautiful love stories can start with a misunderstanding.” Miguel (Javier Bardem) and Sofia (Penélope Cruz) Moreno have one…
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The Posthumanism of Resident Evil
“Lean and mean and tight” is how director Zach Cregger described his upcoming Resident Evil reboot, noting how it emulates the survival mechanics…
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Musk – first-look review | Little White Lies
There was a time, not so long ago, when Elon Musk seemed relatively innocuous. Just another Silicon Valley tech guy with…
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – a quietly…
In stark black and white, this fact-based drama opens with us eavesdropping on what would become a milestone jazz trio recording.…
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No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman –…
Every bit as evocative as its lengthy title, No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman is a vertiginous descent into hell. Halkawt…
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L’Estranea – first-look review | Little White Lies
In case it wasn’t obvious from the circular licorice candies or the various images of shrinking loops scattered throughout L’Estranea (The…
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Blue Film review – a riveting exploration of…
It’s staggering how a ninety-minute conversation between two people in one location can be quite so captivating; it’s even more mindblowing…
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Look Back – first-look review
Japanese writer-director-editor Hirokazu Koreeda has been hit or miss since his Palme d’Or win for Shoplifters in 2018, and that’s putting it…
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The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias – first-look review
“Why do we need a guide to utopias today?” Slavoj Žižek opens by answering his own question inimitably from afar, over…
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Just An Illusion review – an unabashedly feelgood family affair
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano deliver a glossy, good-natured portrait of family dysfunction in 1980s France. A French nuclear family…
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