MOVIE

This Must Be the Place: A Queer East…
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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…
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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…
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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…
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
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
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 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…
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
If you ever happen to see the French filmmaker Leos Carax live and in person, perhaps presenting one of his

Enzo – first-look review | Little White Lies
- By West virginia digital
- . June 9, 2025
The tragic context behind this film is compounded further by the fact that it is truly wonderful. Veteran French director