How To Train Your Dragon review – never quite…
Live-action remakes have come to dominate the kickoff of the summer movie season. Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the creative
This Must Be the Place: A Queer East…
This is the first of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together
Lollipop review – a gut-punching debut
The past couple of years have seen an influx of women filmmakers bringing timely, working-class stories to the big screen
The Wedding Banquet review – an unexpected delight
The first explicitly gay film director Andrew Ahn ever saw was Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet. A comedy drama about
Tornado review – tries a bit too hard to be…
An entire decade has slipped by since the release of John Maclean’s debut feature, the frisky meta western Slow West,
The enduring horror of Kiss Me Deadly
Heavy breathing, bare feet running on the asphalt, and a desperation so intense that it makes a woman put herself
Motel Destino review – a sleazy stay in a neon…
As he runs freely across the sprawling dunes of Ceará, flitting back and forth between the crisp water and the
Seeking Mavis Beacon review – Delightful search…
Mavis Beacon is considered within the American popular consciousness to be the first influential black woman within the world IT…
Challenging representation and centring trans community and craft at TITE 2025
The first edition of the Trans Image / Trans Experience Festival (TITE) in Dublin showcases the multitudes contained in the
It’s Not Me review – an innovative homage to…
If you ever happen to see the French filmmaker Leos Carax live and in person, perhaps presenting one of his