Sarthak Kaul
May 1, 2021
Guilty Bunch of Flowers [Wayne Kelly, UK, 2019]
Guilty Bunch of Flowers is a razor-tongued comedy that kick-starts its plot with a rose bouquet switching hands between people...
Paromita Sengupta
May 1, 2021
Bring the Boy Back Home [Gilbert Patten-Elliott, New Zealand, 2020]
Bring the Boy Back Home, written and directed by the young Gilbert Patten-Elliott, has its heart in the right place. And that is so...
Will Whitehead
Apr 24, 2021
Isolation [Grant Anthony Barker, USA, 2020]
Isolation is a highly expressionistic look at the surreal boredom of long-term isolation, made during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
Nia Jordan
Apr 24, 2021
The Self-Seers [Matthew David Ridley, South Korea, 2020]
A giant cross glows eerily atop a darkened metropolis, while a lone girl journeys home, floating in a daze – or is it a nightmare?
Wendy Brooking
Apr 18, 2021
Venus [Andrew McGee, UK, 2021]
Saturated with stylistic similarities to science fiction cinema new and old – from Blade Runner [Ridley Scott, USA, 1982] to Ghost in the Sh
Paromita Sengupta
Apr 18, 2021
Luna [Philippe Berthelet, Canada, 2021]
Experimental cinema is as old as cinema itself and, indeed, cinema began as an experiment. It is the generally expected of the genre that...
Paromita Sengupta
Apr 11, 2021
Poolside [Alex Kinter & Erik Schuessler, USA, 2020]
‘How long do you have to be alone before you go crazy?’ Set in the 1950s America, Poolside is a suspense thriller with questions that run...
Marcus Hansen
Apr 11, 2021
Covid Tales: House Party [Mike Spence, United Kingdom, 2021]
In the age or ageing of COVID-19, former barriers—between work and play, community and solidarity, movement and stasis—have melted away.
Hope Smith
Apr 4, 2021
Rebirth of Venus [Robin Noorda, Netherlands, 2021]
When poetry collides with imagery, we can get nothing short of a work of art. Rebirth of Venus uses a poem that is striking and combines...
Kiran McCann
Apr 4, 2021
It’s Just Me [Jared Moossy, USA, 2021]
“Now I’m black, a homosexual lifestyle, and I’m a transgender? That’s like three strikes, you out!”