Thought-provoking
VOD film review: La Civil (2021)
March 14, 2022 | Anton Bitel
The mother of an abducted teenager becomes a Woman on Fire on Mexico’s mean streets in this brutal cartel thriller.Read More
VOD film review: The Beta Test
March 13, 2022 | Mark Harrison
This funny and neurotic “erotic thriller” remix savages Hollywood’s toxic men.Read More
UK TV review: Upload Season 2
March 11, 2022 | David Farnor
Season 2 of Greg Daniels’ playful, imaginative comedy ups the sci-fi as well as the satire.Read More
VOD film review: Night’s End
March 11, 2022 | Anton Bitel
The agoraphobic and the occult collide in Jennifer Reeder’s modern psychological ghost story.Read More
VOD film review: A Banquet
March 11, 2022 | Matthew Turner
A teenage daughter has a supernatural experience and refuses to eat in Ruth Paxton’s creepy and unsettling horror debut.Read More
VOD film review: The Real Charlie Chaplin
February 19, 2022 | David Farnor
Charlie Chaplin’s persona is thoughtfully unpicked in this playful, probing documentary.Read More
VOD film review: Flee
February 11, 2022 | Katherine McLaughlin
This exquisitely crafted animation based on a refugee’s tale is tense, unpredictable and profoundly moving.Read More
VOD film review: Cow
February 11, 2022 | Matthew Turner
Andrea Arnold follows the life of a British dairy cow in this mooving documentary.Read More
What Is The Matrix Revolutions? Revisiting the Wachowskis’ trilogy-topper
December 20, 2021 | Mark Harrison
Like it or loathe it, the final entry in the original Matrix trilogy dispels binary thinking and genre tropes.
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What Is The Matrix? Revisiting the game-changing original
December 18, 2021 | Mark Harrison
This self-actualising sci-fi simulation is as stimulating as ever.Read More
