While there is no onscreen violence or bloodshed, German docudrama, The Conference is possibly the most disturbing film so far this year. This film depicts the abhorrent attempt to sanitise the most appallingly brutal aspects of human nature through bureaucratic process. The film dramatises the events of the meeting held in a chateau next to Wannsee Lake in Berlin on
Read moreWriter/director Jordan Peele’s intriguingly off-kilter, socially conscious, genre-splicing horror films, Get Out and Us have been some of Hollywood’s more interesting offerings of recent years. They weren’t for everyone, though, as the plots of those films, especially Us, were a little murky and at times made us feel we were watching a jumble of ideas rather than a coherent story.
Read moreHi folks, Here’s our review of the MIFF 2022 feature film ‘Silent Land’.
Read moreThe dark, erudite, acerbic, if somewhat repetitive drama, The Forgiven, is a confronting story of guilt, vengeance and the clash of western and middle eastern cultures. Ralph Fiennes plays the bitterly cynical alcoholic doctor, David Henninger who, along with American wife Jo (Jessica Chastain), finds himself in a twisting moral dilemma. While driving to an extravagant party at rich, eccentric
Read moreHaving opened the Moro Spanish Film Festival earlier in the year and now screening in general release is the movie industry satire, Official Competition. The film, which stars two of Spain’s most famous actors, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, is largely a dig at weird, egotistical actors and the slightly ridiculous world they inhabit. Penelope Cruz plays lauded arthouse director
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