romance

A supernova is the largest explosion that takes place in space. Scientists describe it as a star increasing greatly in brightness due to an explosion within. Beautiful and catastrophic, it’s an apt metaphor for Harry Macqueen’s newest…

Wild Mountain Thyme delivers on its titular promise of a wild time but not in any way one might anticipate. You know you are in for a bumpy ride when the film begins with a voiceover stating "Welcome to Ireland. My name's Tony Reilly…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that adapting a famous novel into a film comes with some difficulties. There have been many film variations of Austen’s novels. Just this year, another of her works, Emma, took in a worldwide…

Writer-director Dustin Feneley's impressive feature debut Stray is simply contemplative and resoundingly lyrical in representing two kinds of nature set against one another: pained human nature and the Great Outdoors joined at the…

Love. Death. Fear. Parenthood. Companionship. Angst. Trauma. All these one-worded sentiments are skillfully woven into the seriocomical mixture of director Cyrus Mirakhor's inventively off-kilter dramedy Wake. Ambitiously witty and oddly…

Jean Luc Godard once said “Film is truth, 24 frames per second.” Now, I don’t know what that means, but I do know it's wrong. Atonement cannot be truth, because it's made of film, and truth is made of emotions or something. I also don’t…

Her is an unusual union of sci-fi and romance that ruminates on the ubiquitousness of technology and what it means to love.

The concept of the Sparrows - attractive female spies trained to use their sexuality to compromise male targets - sounds like something that would be right at home in farcical espionage literature. Remember Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye?

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