Film Review: The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Becoming a fully functioning adult with a proper job and a life partner is messy. Joachim Trier’s romantic drama isContinue Reading
Author: Marie O'Sullivan
Film Review: The Long Walk (2022)
Laotian film The Long Walk from director Mattie Do offers a strange philosophical tale of time travel and guilt in a ruralContinue Reading
Film Review: Fabian – Going To The Dogs (2021)
Premiering at the 2021 Berlinale and acquiring an armful of trophies at the German Film Awards, Dominik Graf’s version ofContinue Reading
Film Review: The Pact (2022)
Based on the memoirs of a young Danish poet whose life intertwined with that of author Karen Blixen in theContinue Reading
The Severing – Slamdance Film Festival 2022
Billed as a “feature length dance film” but in reality more of an art installation, The Severing mines the deepest human emotionsContinue Reading
Film Review: Brighton 4th (2022)
A success at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Brighton 4th is a tender, sad portrait of the illusion of immigration and theContinue Reading
Film Review: The Olive Trees of Justice (1962) 4K restoration
Primarily known as a documentary film-maker, American director James Blue’s only feature film The Olive Trees of Justice was shot under remarkableContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Red Angel (Collector’s Edition)
Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura’s 1966 film about the hopelessness of war, Red Angel, gets the Arrow Video Blu-Ray treatment – and it’sContinue Reading
Film Review: Delicious (2022)
With the lightness of a soufflé, Delicious pits the whims of the aristocracy against the determination of a master chef in 18th centuryContinue Reading
Marie’s Top Ten Films of 2021
Marie gives us Top 10(ish) of 2021 Like many people I’m sure, my cinema-going in 2021 was severely curtailed (yetContinue Reading