Rating: 3.5★
Before Andrea Arnold became the director associated with sun-scorched housing estates and raw, unvarnished portraits of working-class British life, she announced herself to the world with a twenty-six minute film made on a modest budget for Cowboy Films, the UK Film Council, and Film4. Wasp, released in
Rating: 3.0★
Few films can claim to have genuinely rewired an entire genre, but Hideo Nakata's Ring from 1998 comes about as close as anything released in the last three decades. Based on Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel of the same name, the film follows a journalist who begins
Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular kind of anticipation that surrounds any new Hayao Miyazaki film, and by 2023 that anticipation had curdled into something closer to disbelief. The director had, after all, announced his retirement in 2013 following the release of The Wind Rises, only to quietly reverse course a few
Rating: 4.0★
Released in 2004, Turtles Can Fly arrived at a moment when the dust from the 2003 invasion of Iraq had barely begun to settle. Shot on location in the Kurdish regions of Iran and Iraq, the film plants itself on the Turkey-Iraq border in the days just before the
Rating: 2.0★
David Cronenberg is, by now, a name that carries genuine weight in the history of cinema. From the surgical dread of The Brood to the slow-burn menace of A History of Violence, his filmography spans decades and shifts in style while remaining unmistakably his own. But every career has
Bergenfield Film Festival
Brianna Lee has been incredibly busy lately. Her feature The Troll premiered at Raindance this year and her short The Camper is playing the horror circuit, and she does very nearly every job on her films herself. Home is something else entirely. It is an eight-minute short, having had
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that announce themselves as Important Events and films that simply turn up, do their job with a grin on their face, and leave you feeling better than you did before. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) belongs very much to the second category. The premise is clean
Rating: 3.5★
There are not many films that can claim to have caused a diplomatic incident before they even opened. The Message, released in 1976 under the alternative title Mohammad, Messenger of God, prompted a hostage siege at the Washington D.C. headquarters of B'nai B'rith, carried out
Rating: 2.5★
The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world. By the early 2000s, decades of Soviet-era irrigation projects had reduced it to a scattering of shallow, salt-crusted remnants surrounded by desert, leaving fishing boats stranded on dry land miles from any water. It is one
Northern Horror Fest
Tobee Collins made Verena with no filmmaking experience at all. None. He taught himself to write, to shoot, to light, to edit and to score, and then went and did every one of those jobs himself: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor and composer. It was his first film, and it
Rating: 3.0★
There are films that arrive with a straightforward pitch and deliver more or less what they promise, and then there are films like Mad God. Phil Tippett's feature debut as director is something else entirely: a stop-motion nightmare three decades in the making, resurrected from a shelved
Rating: 3.5★
British cinema has always had a complicated relationship with its own class system, from the kitchen-sink dramas of the 1960s through to the heritage pictures that followed, and Emerald Fennell's Saltburn arrives very much in that tradition, even as it does its best to tear the wallpaper
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