Tag: Kate Dickie

Honey Bunch | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Love Like This Before: Sims-Fewer & Mancinelli Examine the Ethics of Love Canadian filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli follow up their disturbing 2020...

The Northman | Review

Whisper Tales of Gore: Eggers Burns Trail to Valhalla in Viking Epic In keeping with the time-hoary notion of revenge being a dish best served...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s The Green Knight

Due to have been released just after it's launch at the SXSW film festival, A24 haven't been fleeing their fate with The Green Knight...

Boyz In The Wood | 2019 SXSW Film Festival Review Ninian Doff

Ninian Doff Goes Brogue While Delinquents Go Scot-Free Scottish music video-director Ninian Doff offers an uneven but hilarious debut with Boyz in the Wood:  a bonkers action-comedy...

The Witch | Review

Better the Devil You Know: Eggers’ Debut Marinates with Menace Easily the most profoundly unnerving film to play at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, the...

For Those in Peril | Review

Fish Out of Water: Wright’s Debut a Visually Arresting, Moody Allegory The mythological significance of the sea inflects and infects Paul Wright’s somber directorial debut,...

Filth | Review

Bad Detective: Baird Adapts Welsh for (Sometimes) Outrageous Effect Danny Boyle’s 1996 classic Trainspotting set the bar for Irvine Welsh adaptations (Boyle is apparently at...

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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.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...