★★★★☆ As Olavi (Heikki Nousiainen) approaches retirement, he reflects on his career as an antiques dealer. With little to show for it and no inheritance to leave his semi-estranged daughter Lea (Pirjo Lonka) and teenage grandson Otto (Amos Brotherus), he […]
★★★☆☆ With the saturation of the zombie as modern cinema’s de facto monster, it’s difficult to imagine in what new direction the shuffling dead can possibly amble. Yet, with the imperfect but fascinating Endzeit, director Carolina Hellsgård ultimately guides her […]
★★★★☆ Hot on the heels of new additions to the coming of age genre like Eighth Grade and Lady Bird, Desiree Akhavan’s second feature, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, shines a light on institutionalised homosexual oppression in 1993’s America. Adorned with […]
★★★★☆ Michael Mayer takes something of a gamble bringing Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull to the screen and it doesn’t entirely pay off. This is very much an American, celebrity driven rendition of a Russian classic and the stellar cast, including Annette […]
★★★★☆ Chris Martin’s Under the Wire provides haunting testament and tribute to journalists Marie Colvin and Paul Conroy, as they sort to report on the civil war in Syria, subsequently uncovering crimes against humanity committed by dictator, Bashir al-Assad. In […]
