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Hot Milk | Review

The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically...

Hard Truths | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

Take A Chance On Love: Mike Leigh Delivers A Late Career Powerhouse You can’t help but wonder if Mike Leigh is making a sly joke...

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Review

Wain’s World: Sharpe Presents Loving Portrait of an Artist It’s odd to reflect upon a time when felines weren’t regarded as a stereotypical domesticated fur...

Limbo | Review

Immigrant Song: The Personal is Political in Sharrock’s Quietly Sincere Portrait of Asylum Seeker The plight of the political asylum seeker is a complex situation...

The Father | Review

Bend It Like Beckett: Zellers Adapts His Masterful Play into Exploratory Film In Paradise Lost, John Milton remarked “The mind is its own place, and...

The Personal History of David Copperfield | Review

I am (re) Born: Iannucci Condenses a Dickens Masterpiece with Contemporary Aims “It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon...

The Shadow of Violence | Review

Goodbye Horses: Rowland Riles Allegiances in Familiar Crime Thriller It’s a tale as old as crime itself, the toppling of empires thanks to the shifting...

How to Build a Girl | Review

The Girl Most Likely To…: Giedroyc Returns with Novel Coming-of-Age Dramedy In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new---a...

True History of the Kelly Gang | Review

The Ned Don’t Die: Kurzel Returns to Form with Exploration of Infamous Outlaw It’s been nearly 140 years since the execution of Ned Kelly, Australia’s...

Greed | Review

In a Rich Man’s World: Winterbottom Wobbles with Elementary Satire Perennial British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who has presented a number of different narratives across...

The Day Shall Come | Review

Fooling the Children of the Revolution: Morris Returns with Dark, Political Satire Stakes are perhaps too high for writer-director Christopher Morris’s sophomore film following the...

Video: Chris Morris’ The Day Shall Come | 2019 SXSW Film Festival

Eight years after his incendiary debut Four Lions premiered at Sundance, British satirist Chris Morris unveiled his follow-up The Day Shall Come at SXSW...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #103. Greed – Michael Winterbottom

Greed Michael Winterbottom unites once more with actor Steve Coogan for his latest project, Greed, their first collaboration since the third installment of their Trip...

Video: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay

A film that was highly anticipated and did not go unnoticed, shared with Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, this was the press...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...