2020
If you are in the mood for a light, funny, horror-comedy – heavy on the comedy – Useless Humans is something special.
Ju-On: Origins may not reinvent the formula of the franchise, it still has enough stuff to give the audience a terrifying nightmare.
A Girl from a Box is a light-hearted short that manages to delve deep into modern relationships with a funny and delicate touch.
Despite feeling disjointed at times, Wake Up: Stories from the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention is a highly informative piece of filmmaking.
Welcome to Chechnya is likely to be the most urgent documentary of the year, but makes many exploitative missteps along the way.
James Benning’s latest work examines the ghostly spaces of human inhabitation through its austere and formalist rigour.
This slick spy story has too many tricks up its sleeve, leading more to confusion than thrills.
For this report from the virtual Sydney Film Festival 2020, we delve into thirteen of the short film finalists.
Here is a look at the documentary finalists for the 67th edition of The Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition.
Boaz Yakin’s Aviva is an experience not just in the crafting of relationships, but what goes on behind the scenes.
The idea of something as simple as Odd Dog being so funny, heartfelt, and poignant is refreshing on several levels.
While it attempts to be timely and relevant, throwing jabs at a questionable leader, it leans on cheap humor and shallow narrative constructions.
The final installment of the wonderfully light The Trip series has the same offerings fans can expect, with lots of new favorable additions.
Luke Parker recently had the pleasure of speaking with Norm Lewis about his experiences working on Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee’s new film.
Da 5 Bloods is the first great Black Vietnam film, not just the first. It’s a movie whose modern envelope minces empathy and excitement within the unsung sacrifice of the African American soldier.