Movies
-
Leviticus review – a tender queer horror debut
Writer/director Adrian Chiarella’s feature debut Leviticus opens with credits on an otherwise blank screen, but also with the sounds of…
Read More » -
Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s ‘KULT’ of darkly…
From the moment I saw two sapphic Mormon wives hack up an eggplant for dinner, I knew Louisa Connolly-Burnham was going to…
Read More » -
The Dead Screen as a Mirror: Metacinema and the…
There is something distinctly meta about the films of the Trans New Wave, but not in the way we usually…
Read More » -
Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Everyone that surrounds a…
One of the most storied, successful and stylish filmmakers in modern European history, Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar has shelves filled with…
Read More » -
The Dog Stars review – sickly sweet hopecore
A wave of what is known uninspiringly as “hopecore” is sweeping through theatres. At surface level these films inspire hope,…
Read More » -
Colony review – messy parade of old genre gimmicks
In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one…
Read More » -
I Want Your Sex review – even a lesser Araki is…
Too much digital ink has been spilled over the younger generation’s sexual pessimism and aversion to sex on screen. It…
Read More » -
Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii: Junior Ghosts –…
“You’re doing a lot of hearing and understanding, but I just don’t know if you do,” an embittered helpline caller complains of…
Read More » -
The ASBOwave and the Cultural Politics of Broken…
Here we see the flipside of this narrative of exclusion: if we are going to be treated as violent scum,…
Read More » -
Bitter Christmas review – dazzling, late-period…
The maestro of melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar, is currently making some of the finest films of his storied career – during…
Read More »