Frankie (Isabelle Huppert) is a world-renowned actress, known by audiences for her film and television work that have made her a beloved cultural icon. However, what her admirers don’t know is that Frankie is dying – she has been diagnosed with cancer and is in the last stages of her life. As a response to…

When it comes to timely topics, films tend to either be profusely inappropriate, having very little tact as they approach contemporary issues without any filter, or innocuous social dramas that avoid any in-depth discussion, hoping that a surface-level summary that somewhat softens the situation at hand will be enough. Bombshell is a film that classifies…

Right from the start, I’ll mention how Nevia is one of the most astonishing pieces of contemporary filmmaking I’ve seen in quite a while – there have been many works that took a daring approach to representing existence over the course of the past few months, but not many of them were as effective as…

L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close is an astounding work of unmitigated genius, hailing from the beautifully twisted mind of Bertrand Bonello, who once again returns to deviant narrative territory in the most astonishing way, delivering a gorgeously complex historical drama that extends much further than just being a lavish period piece, flourishing into one…

Somewhere in rural China in the early 1980s, we’re presented with two working-class families residing near a factory, which served as their main source of income for breadwinners Yaojun (Wang Jingchun) and Yingming (Xu Chen), who are raising their children with their respective wives, Liyun (Yong Mei) and Haiyan (Ai Liya). Their sons share the…

The Spanish countryside is on fire – no one knows what, or who, caused it. All the residents of the small region of Galicia know is that one of their most infamous sons, Amador (Amador Arias Mon), a notorious arsonist, has been released from prison and is heading home, where he will be staying with…

Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) have been married for quite a while, being initially brought together by their shared interest in the arts. He’s a theatre director right on the precipice of his breakthrough, already being well-regarded in the avant-garde circles he is a part of, and being set for the Broadway stage….

At this point, how do we talk about Pedro Almodóvar without saying something that has already been said numerous times? The past two decades has confirmed that he’s not only one of the most significant film directors to have come out of his native Spain, but one of the world’s most extraordinary artists, whose work…

There is something so distinct about a John Cassavetes films, a quality that is so difficult to pin down but is there throughout his work. Whether one of his most universally-adored masterpieces or one of his more experimental works that were met with the expected jeers and cheers, his films always seemed to follow the…

The Irishman is not just a gangster film. It’s an intricate cultural epic that functions as a darkly comical meditation on crime, ageing, the role of masculinity throughout the twentieth century and ultimately, death, both that of inflicting and experiencing it. Martin Scorsese presents us with perhaps his finest film in decades, a work of…