Saint Damian (San Damiano), 2024. Directed by Alejandro Cifuentes, Gregori Sassoli SYNOPSIS: Damian leaves Poland for Rome in search of a new life. With just 50 euros on him, he climbs a tower overlooking the homeless community around Termini station and dreams of music, love and fulfilment. It is said that many of us are […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Paternal Leave
Paternal Leave, 2025. Directed by Alissa Jung. Starring Juli Grabenhenrich, Luca Marinelli, and Arturo Gabbriellini. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl travels to Italy’s northern coast in search of her biological father. After meeting, the two grapple with complex emotions and struggle to form a connection while staying true to their own identities. Alissa Jung’s debut film […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Breakwater
Breakwater, 2025. Written and Directed by Max Morgan. Starring Shaun Paul McGrath, Daniel McNamee, Agnes Halliday, William Gao, Noah Radcliffe-Adams SYNOPSIS: A relationship is formed between a university student and a retired angler on the Suffolk coast. The impact of grief and its potential for clouding all aspects of life is sensitively examined in Max […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Loner
Loner (2025) Directed by Charlie Robb, Douglas Tawn Starring Charlie Robb, Kat Johns-Burke SYNOPSIS: An aspiring vlogger goes on a wilderness retreat to a cabin in the woods, where he is held captive by an ancient, natural force. Charlie Robb’s Loner succeeds as a disarming and memorable feature, blending pitch-black humour, folk-horror influences and a […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Thinestra
Thinestra, 2025. Directed by Nathan Hertz. Starring Melissa Macedo, Michelle Macedo, Mary Beth Barone, Annie Ngosi Ilonzeh, and Brian Huskey. SYNOPSIS: A young woman takes a slimming aid, and the weight she loses returns as a destructive doppelganger. At a time when everyone seems to be judged on how they look rather than how they […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Dream!
Dream!, 2025. Directed by Paul Spurrier. Starring Amata Masmalai, Vithaya Pansringarm, Chomphupak Poonpol, Adam Kaokept, and Sahajak Boonthanakit SYNOPSIS: A newly orphaned youngter sets out on a lone quest to find a new home and family. Her journey takes her on many adventures across Thailand. There are undoubtedly many questions I never thought I’d […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Heavyweight
Heavyweight, 2025. Directed by Christopher M. Anthony. Starring Jordan Bolger, Nicholas Pinnock, Jason Isaacs, Sienna Guillory, Osy Ikhile, and Blake Harrison. SYNOPSIS: A boxing coach prepares an underdog for a career-defining boxing championship match, as their world starts to collapse under the pressure. This nerve-racking film feels a bit like going the distance in a […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Darling (1965)
Darling, 1965. Directed by John Schlesinger. Starring Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, José Luis de Vilallonga, and Roland Curram. SYNOPSIS: Diana is a beautiful and ambitious model enjoying the rapidly changing social landscape of the 1960s. Spending her time with a selection of very different influential men, she moves through life in a romantic […]
Movie Review – The Vourdalak (2024)
The Vourdalak, 2024. Directed by Adrien Beau. Starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin. SYNOPSIS: When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behaviour […]
Movie Review – Grafted (2024)
Grafted, 2024. Directed by Sasha Rainbow. Starring Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, Eden Hart, Jared Turner, Sepi To’a and Xiao Hu. SYNOPSIS: A shy Chinese student wins a scholarship to study at a prestigious New Zealand university. Desperate to fit in and win new friends, she experiments with biomedics and skin grafting in order to change […]
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