Tag: Jackie van Beek

The Breaker Upperers | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review

Conscious Coupling: Modern Day "Womance" via Kiwi Duo Yes, there is an extra syllable in the Breaker Upperers, a title imbued with the fumblings of...

2018 SXSW Film Festival: Matt Delman’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

An almost masochistic and perhaps futile exercise, as per usual here on the site, we stick to the mandate of picking a lottery ticket...

What We Do in the Shadows | Review

Friends Forever: Clement & Waititi’s Pleasantly Charming Vampiric Mock-Doc That immortal cinematic archetype, the vampire, has once again been commandeered into the periphery of independent...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.