For the last twenty years of both her professional and personal life, Agnès Varda made films that saw her reflect on her career and all of her experiences as a filmmaker and as a person in a radically shifting world – it seemed like she was always on the verge of saying farewell to her…

From the very first moment of Native Son, the audience is overwhelmed by the dizzying blend of visual style and narrative intensity. Rashid Johnson, in his directorial debut, uses his career as a postmodern artist to create a beautiful reimagining of Richard Wright’s incredible novel, bringing it into a contemporary context that serves to be…

Hong Sang-soo is a director known for his beautiful but often heavy-handed dramas that look at the life of ordinary people, normally those with artistic inclinations. A film that saw Hong move slightly away from his more intense dramas without losing his spirited focus was Claire’s Camera (French: La caméra de Claire), a cross-national comedy…

There are two types of memorable films – the first is one that attempts to revolutionize the cinematic form, being intellectual, thought-provoking works that thrive on their originality, their narrative idiosyncracies and their technical prowess to create otherwise unforgettable experiences that would be difficult to replicate, and go on to inspire countless other artists to…

The King of Marvin Gardens starts with a story – a quiet, emotional retelling of the protagonist’s childhood experience seeing his grandfather die, a traumatic experience, made only worse by the fact that is was preventable. A few minutes later, we see him return home, his grandfather as lively as ever. The story was a…

The odd couple is a trope that has been omnipresent in literature for as long as it has existed, and for good reason – even at their most dull, these kinds of stories do prove to be quite compelling, because it allows two contrastive characters to be paired, with hilarity often ensuing as a result…

The best way to start this review is with a bit of a personal anecdote. I visited New York City in 2017, and one of the destinations I was determined to go to was the Museum of Modern Art, the home to the works of many artists I have admired for years. Several of my…

Cinema has always been the breeding ground for fascinating and controversial stories on a number of occasions, and one area that has been of profound interest to me is that of Neo-Nazism – of course, this is more a historical fascination, but it has always been an area that has given us some tremendous films…

Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and the entertainment industry seems to be addicted. In recent years, we’ve seen the trend where artists attempt to emulate the past in order to stir up memories and create a sense of warmth and familiarity. Some of these works turn out to be lifeless and uninspired when the nostalgia…

A working-class young man who makes a living doing odd jobs for a variety of people in order to compensate for his father’s impending imprisonment, a woman from his past forcing herself into his future in her own search for a deeper meaning, and a mysterious man she meets on her travels with a sinister…