Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Hiroshima (Arrow Academy)
Largely out of circulation since its first showing in 1953, Hiroshima is a powerful indictment of the devastation inflicted by the atomicContinue Reading
Author: Marie O'Sullivan
Film Review: The Tobacconist (2020)
First love and a friendship with Sigmund Freud feature in a pre-war Vienna, where the creeping presence of National SocialismContinue Reading
Film Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Any self-respecting Eurovision Song Contest fan will have been waiting for Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire SagaContinue Reading
Film Review: Proud (2020)
To coincide with Pride Month, Kino Marquee presents a three-part drama series from France. Fiertés (Proud) follows a young manContinue Reading
Film Review: Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Three movies of early queer cinema – a silent film, a light musical, and one with an all-female cast – areContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s America As Seen By A Frenchman (Arrow Academy)
“If you don’t know what you want, come in because we have it.” A quintessential outsider’s view on The American DreamContinue Reading
Film Review: New French Shorts 2020
For lockdown cinephiles tired of making their own viewing choices, why not try a lucky dip of shorts in thisContinue Reading
Film Review: Driveways (2020)
In these strange times, a gentle film about kindness from unexpected sources is possibly just what we need. Marie tookContinue Reading
Film Review: South Mountain (2020)
On a humid June afternoon in the Catskill Mountains, Lila realises that her family is quietly falling apart. Talia BalsamContinue Reading
Film Review: Bull (2020)
Director Annie Silverstein’s modest feature debut Bull, about a washed up rodeo rider and a wayward teen in suburban Texas, playedContinue Reading