Review: Deerskin (Le daim)
This has to be one of the oddest movies I've seen in a long while! It's from Quentin Dupieux the writer/director who brought us Rubber. In case you missed that…
Review: Bull
I hadn't heard of this one and was a bit wary of it since it seems to be about rodeo, not high on my list of entertainments. But I really…
Review: Love Wedding Repeat
My "Cinema Clash" podcast partner Charlie asked if I had watched Love Wedding Repeat on Netflix yet, suggesting it was a "Hannah movie." In theory, he was right. It's a…
Review: True History of the Kelly Gang
The film opens with, "Nothing you're about to see is true," so you know that even though it's based on the true story of an infamous Australian outlaw and folk…
Quickie Review: The Booksellers
Antiquarian booksellers aren't people you meet every day. Theirs in an insular world and an industry that may be fading away. The booksellers that this documentary introduces its audience to…
Review: Selah and the Spades
Selah and the Spades is a bit like Mean Girls meets Goodfellas. At Hogwarts. Without the magic. The story takes place at an elite boarding school in Pennsylvania where the…
Quickie Review: The Other Lamb
This coming-of-age story is set in an unknown place and time where a charismatic hunk of a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman - Game of Thrones, Wild) leads an all-female…
Review: Resistance
When you think of mime, you naturally think of Marcel Marceau. But you probably don't know how he saved a group of Jewish orphans from the Nazis during World War…
Review: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things is the latest in a slew of solid if not particularly groundbreaking music documentaries celebrating the life and legacy of a pioneering artist.…
Review: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a film that I would surely endorse watching if and when there’s talk again of overturning Roe v. Wade or further eroding abortion rights. But…