Jakub Flasz 4/29/20 Jakub Flasz 4/29/20

The Enduring Legacy of The Lady Vanishes

Exactly forty years ago, the world of film suffered a tragic loss when Sir Alfred Hitchcock left this mortal coil. Jakub Flasz takes a look at one of the influential directors more underseen work in The Lady Vanishes

Alexander Holmes 4/29/20 Alexander Holmes 4/29/20

KAGEMUSHA: Akira Kurosawa's re-evaluation of the Samurai genre and its influence on Star Wars

Alexander Holmes takes a look at the deconstruction and revaluation of lore and tropes in Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha and its influence on Star Wars

Jak Luke Sharp 4/29/20 Jak Luke Sharp 4/29/20

Un divan à Tunis (Arab Blues)

Manele Labidi's Arab Blues is a wonderfully crafted comedy with a terrific balance of heart and dramatic nature

Tim Neill 4/28/20 Tim Neill 4/28/20

BFI FLARE 2020 - Pxssy Palace

There's no doubt the club Pxssy Palace does great work and, if the film grows a strong community around it, Pxssy Palace will succeed in at least bringing awareness of its cause

Justin Caunan 4/28/20 Justin Caunan 4/28/20

Better Call Saul - S5E8: Bagman

Jak Luke Sharp 4/28/20 Jak Luke Sharp 4/28/20

LuxFilmFest - Norie

Yuki Kawamura's documentary Norie is a heartfelt and emotionally engulfing feature that follows the arc of grief and celebration of life in its traumatic intertwined paradox

Alexander Holmes 4/27/20 Alexander Holmes 4/27/20

The Clone Wars - S7E10: The Phantom Apprentice

From the outset of The Phantom Apprentice, it is made immediately clear through an eerie lack of opening music that this is going to get dark – and dark it does get

Jak Luke Sharp 4/27/20 Jak Luke Sharp 4/27/20

Zan (Killing)

Tsukamoto’s impressive feature is a slow, but inevitable climatic internal duel of the morals

Jak Luke Sharp 4/26/20 Jak Luke Sharp 4/26/20

BERLINALE 2020 - Golda Maria

Golda Maria is an emotionally breath-taking and captivating documentary that details the horrors of the Holocaust honestly and devastatingly

Rory Marsh 4/26/20 Rory Marsh 4/26/20

Extraction

It feels as though Netflix have nailed the exact type of film they should be investing in with Extraction

Jakub Flasz 4/25/20 Jakub Flasz 4/25/20

Summer Knight

Summer Knight is seemingly a quintessential coming-of-age story that is steeped deeply in romantic nostalgia

Jak Luke Sharp 4/25/20 Jak Luke Sharp 4/25/20

BERLINALE 2020 - Petite fille (Little Girl)

From its first until its last frame, Petite fille (Little Girl) is a captivating albeit soul-destroying feature with a considerable amount of gravitas and weight

Justin Caunan 4/25/20 Justin Caunan 4/25/20

Better Call Saul - S5E7: JMM

Everyone tries to regain control as the fifth season of Better Call Saul continues its hot streak of tragicomic brilliance

Carson Timar 4/24/20 Carson Timar 4/24/20

I LIVE IN FEAR: The Universally Shared Fear and Tension of Atomic Destruction

Carson Timar explores the fear and tension of inevitable war and destruction in the Akira Kurosawa directed and Toshiro Mifune starring I live In Fear

Jak Luke Sharp 4/24/20 Jak Luke Sharp 4/24/20

IFFR 2020 - A Girl Missing

Kôji Fukada's Yokogao (A Girl Missing) is a slow, stoic and strenuously foreboding tale of mental fatigue and media scrutinization

Andy Harrison 4/24/20 Andy Harrison 4/24/20

SXSW 2020 - We Are As Gods

Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado’s documentary We Are As Gods is an impressive and varied biography of writer and controversial environmentalist Stewart Brand