Film Review

In 1920, African-American actor Charles Gilpin was cast in the lead role of The Emperor Jones. His performance as Brutus Jones led to great acclaim and numerous honours, including the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the…

Vanessa Kirby starts piecing together an Oscar campaign at the Venice Film Festival in Pieces Of A Woman. Martha and Sean Carson are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably during a homebirth. Thus…

Greta Thunberg's meteoric rise from striking schoolgirl to the most famous activist in the world is the subject of fly-on-the-wall documentary I Am Greta which premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival. Some of the most interesting…

Forget Spanish Fly. The Italians were going crazy for a French Fly with Mandibules generating quite the buzz at this year's Venice Film Festival. It is a unique experience to a film festival to sit in a socially distanced audience…

Andrew Garfield is the social media platform prophet who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in Mainstream. Gia Coppola's cautionary tale that attempts to be a Network for the internet age. When aspiring filmmaker Frankie…

Jim Broadbent shines in a portrait of a man who acquires a painting with a five finger discount in The Duke. Based on the true story of how in 1961, 60 year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's Duke of Wellington portrait from the National…

The 77th Venice Film Festival gets off to a very a-peel-ing start with the Greek film Apples. A film that looks at the importance of memory in defining who we are. Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris…

After 2016's disappointing X-Men: Apocalypse and last year's box office bomb Dark Phoenix, it was clear that the X-Men were losing its stride since Wolverine's 'retirement' in 2017's Logan. This begs the question - do we need another X-Men…

A microcosm of a decadent and brilliant age, now long gone, Bright Young Things is a gaudy, spangled delight. An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies, the film is an insight into the sybaritic lives of a handful of wealthy…

If there was ever a lesson cinema has taught us, it's that the course of true love never runs smoothly. Recent rom-coms seem to offer a more light-hearted approach to love, the latest film by Chinese filmmaker Tingting Yao brings a tale of…