Compartment No 6 – MANIFF 2022
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Compartment No 6 gets a showing at Manchester Film Festival. A snowy journey with real warmth.Continue Reading
Tag: Coming of Age
Beans – Raindance Film Festival 2021
A coming of age story from a little-seen historical and cultural perspective, centred on an indigenous girl growing up inContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Before Chloé Zhao won an Oscar and directed a huge budget studio tentpole Marvel film she directed this tender, intimateContinue Reading
Hellbender – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
The filmmaking family that brought us The Deeper You Dig bring us a tale of female adolescence wrapped in a tale witchcraft. Continue Reading
Film Review: CODA (2021)
CODA is that crowd-pleasing sleeper hit that you’ve been looking for. Writer/Director Siân Heder’s coming of age musical drama aboutContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Severin Film’s Deep Blood
Deep Blood the Joe D’Amato Sharksploitation Cult Classic is now on Blu-Ray for the world to enjoy. Severin Films continues to doContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s North Shore (KL Studio Classics)
The 80’s Coming of Age Surfing Movie North Shore makes its Blu-Ray debut thanks to Kino Lorber. The Film BurkhartContinue Reading
Wildland – AFI Film Festival 2020
Wildland is unlike any female coming-of-age story you have seen. Director Jeanette Nordahl’s debut feature film eschews every single girl coming-of-ageContinue Reading
Film Review: Out Stealing Horses (2020)
Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland continues his collaboration with the legend that is Stellan Skarsgård in this tender look backContinue 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