Girl Picture, 2022. Directed by Alli Haapasalo. Starring Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino, Sonya Lindfors, Cécile Orblin, Oona Airola, and Mikko Kauppila. SYNOPSIS: Mimmi, Emma, and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. On three consecutive Fridays, two of them experience the earth moving effects of falling […]
Movie Review – Resurrection (2022)
Resurrection, 2022. Written and directed by Andrew Semans. Starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, and Angela Wong Carbone. SYNOPSIS: Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past. Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth […]
Movie Review – Summering (2022)
Summering, 2022. Co-written and directed by James Ponsoldt. Starring Lia Barnett, Madalen Mills, Eden Grace Redfield, and Sanai Victoria. SYNOPSIS: Four best friends on the brink of starting middle school realise their lives are about to change forever. So on the last weekend of summer, they set out to make the most of it. James […]
Movie Review – Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening, 2021. Directed by Bianca Stigter. Starring Helena Bonham Carter. SYNOPSIS: A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II. Documentary film at its best can be a potent vehicle […]
Netflix Review – Wednesday
Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s The Addams Family spinoff series Wednesday… As streaming services continue their industrious quest to plumb every last viable “IP” ripe for its own series treatment, in the very least a contemporary live-action adaptation of The Addams Family feels like a fairly natural eventuality. After all, little truly […]
Video Game Review – The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
Shaun Munro reviews The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me… The Dark Pictures Anthology wraps up its first season of interactive horror with The Devil in Me, which with the presence of Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley in the lead role – easily the series’ biggest Hollywood get to date – offers hope that Supermassive might […]
Video Game Review – Somerville
Shaun Munro reviews Somerville… Somerville is the debut title from new dev outfit Jumpship, formed by Dino Patti, who previously co-founded Playdead, the studio behind beloved indie platformers Limbo and Inside. As such there’s been a tremendous, probably unfair weight of expectation placed upon this game ever since it was first unveiled back in 2017. But […]
Movie Review – Stutz (2022)
Stutz, 2022. Directed by Jonah Hill. Starring Jonah Hill and Phil Stutz. SYNOPSIS: Follow Hill and his therapist as he has candid discussions of mental health and the progressively worsening anxiety attacks related to movie promotion that have turned his dream job into a nightmare. Jonah Hill’s self-directed documentary about his own experiences in therapy has […]
Movie Review – To Leslie (2022)
To Leslie, 2022. Directed by Michael Morris. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Andre Royo, Owen Teague, Stephen Root, James Landry Hebert, Matt Lauria, and Catfish Jean. SYNOPSIS: A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running […]
Movie Review – Living (2022)
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s. It’s a testament to the tectonic power of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 existential drama Ikiru that, even seven full decades on, the […]
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