Film Review: The Quiet Girl (2022)
A triumph for the Irish film industry. The Quiet Girl is a gentle gem of a film about childhood, family relationships, andContinue Reading
Tag: Family Drama
Film Review: Hit the Road (2022)
Winner of the Best Film prize at last year’s London Film Festival, Iranian writer/director Panah Panahi’s first feature Hit the Road isContinue Reading
We’re All in This Together – MANIFF 2022
Katie Boland is a busy lady, taking full creative control of We’re All in This Together while also playing twin sisters onContinue Reading
Spaghetti Junction – MANIFF 2022
Kirby McClure’s background in music video certainly shows through in Spaghetti Junction, his first feature film. Like me, UK readers willContinue Reading
Porcelain – Raindance Film Festival 2021
Another first feature at Raindance 2021, this time from Dutch director Jenneke Boeijink, Porcelain explores the fragility of family relationships in theContinue Reading
Nudo Mixteco – London Film Festival 2021
A Mexican village sees the return of three of its former inhabitants, all of whom have come back to dealContinue 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
Memory Box – London Film Festival 2021
Weaving together past and present, three generations of women, and straddling Beirut in the 1980s and Montréal of today, Memory Box remindsContinue Reading
Ida Red – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
This Family Crime Thriller set in the Midwest is one of the best of recent memory. Writer/Director John Swab createsContinue Reading
When I Consume You – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
A brother and sister confront their demons both literal and figurative in Writer/Director Perry Blackshear’s When I Consume You. Perry Blackshear’s WhenContinue Reading