A short meditation on living abroad, loneliness, parenthood, and holding it together.

The real triumph in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is how it looks and sounds. Benjamin Loeb's cinematography has consistently attractive compositions and colours throughout the film. Japanese legend Jo...

Paul Thomas Anderson has for many years been regarded as one of the great modern American directors. One Battle After Another elevates him a rung or two higher on the ladder of the all-time best. The ...

I'm surprised this isn't one of Agnes Varda's more well-known films, because it's remarkable in many ways. Firstly, Varda is able to powerfully convey her reflections on feminism at the times, which i...

This sequel is made out of a love for Spinal Tap, for those with the same love, and this infuses the film with a familar charm that makes up for it faults. Reiner might not be able to recapture the sa...

Last Rites wraps up the series with a good film that generally channels the best facets of the franchise. The writers made a shrewd decision in flashing back to the birth of the Warrens' daughter, wit...

Caught Stealing was a lot more fun than I was expecting from an Aronofsky film, but it still has some of his grit and darkness. In many ways, it's a lot like a Coen Brothers snowballing romp. The scre...

A beautiful documentary, and one that only Varda could have made. One of the central shop-owning couples reminded me a lot of my late grandparents, which made me quite emotional. Watching this 50 year...

Covid, freedom, social media, echo chambers, guns, police brutality, fake news, abuse, local government, terrorism, protests, colonisation, cults, indoctrination. Ari Aster packs Eddington with a plet...

Together has such a fundamental idea as its premise that it's a wonder it hasn't been done before - indeed, the creators of 2023's Better Half are taking legal action against this film by Michael Shanks, who strongly rejects the plagiarism claim. The central idea branches off into different questions. What happens when a couple has been together for a long time? What does it mean to find your other half? How can you find harmony in life with that person? Have you ever felt so close to another person that you're not sure where you end and they begin?