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2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nouvelle Vague

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Nouvelle Vague, 2025Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Bruno Dreyfürst, Benjamin Clery, Matthieu Penchinat, Pauline Belle, Paolo Luka-Noé and Jade Phan-Gia.SYNOPSIS:After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, […]

Movie Review – Friendship (2024)

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Friendship, 2025.Written and Directed by Andrew DeYoung. Starring Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rick Worthy, Whitmer Thomas, Daniel London, Eric Rahill, Jacob Ming-Trent, Billy Bryk, Meredith Garretson, Ari Dalbert, Josh Segarra, Raphael Sbarge, Omar Torres, Jason Veasey, Jon Glaser, Carmen Christopher, Mike J Mills, Alex Webb, Juri Henley-Cohn, Desi Waters, Brandi […]

Cinecittà Italian Doc Fest 2025 Review – GEN_

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Gen_, 2025.Directed by Gianluca Matarrese. Starring Dr. Maurizio Bini.SYNOPSIS:A maverick doctor at a Milan hospital champions fertility treatments and gender transitions, defying both government restrictions and corporate interests in a quest to help patients realise their true selves.Empathy is an essential resource for any doctor to tap into. Having the compassion to treat fellow humans […]

Cinecittà Italian Doc Fest 2025 Review – Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries

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Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries, 2025.Directed by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Perenti.SYNOPSIS:An epic ‘encyclopaedia’ documentary telling the human story through three non-human subjects, animals, plants and stones.Running over three and a half hours and broken into three distinct parts with a helpful intermission, this haunting philosophical documentary can safely be described as epic. Dexterously made and produced, […]

Cinecittà Italian Doc Fest 2025 Review – The Castle

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The Castle Directed by Danny Biancardi, Stefano La Rosa, Virginia Nardelli.SYNOPSIS:Angelo, Mary and Rosy are three youngsters who live in a run-down Palermo neighbourhood. An abandoned nursery in the heart of the district becomes a haven where they can let their imaginations run wild and escape the pressures of everyday life.The creators of this enchanting […]

Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Saint Damian

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Saint Damian (San Damiano), 2024.Directed by Alejandro Cifuentes, Gregori SassoliSYNOPSIS: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 only a couple of […]

Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Paternal Leave

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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 is a truly remarkable […]

Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Breakwater

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Breakwater, 2025.Written and Directed by Max Morgan. Starring Shaun Paul McGrath, Daniel McNamee, Agnes Halliday, William Gao, Noah Radcliffe-AdamsSYNOPSIS: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 Morgan’s finely made feature.We […]

Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Loner

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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 Blair Witch-type atmosphere. To […]

Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Thinestra

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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 perform, wouldn’t it be […]