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Pranav Kothary’s Coming Home is a 14:57-minute-long discovery of relationships, love and vulnerability. Through the eyes of a teenage girl, we learn about what introspection means to the young, how damaging a broken marriage can be for a child, and why love isn’t always as heady as promised to be.  Liz is due to leave… Continue reading Coming Home: A Cinematic Epiphany On The Definition Of Love

Based on Peter Pan’s epilogue, Elise Robertson’s Darling, Darling Wendy, written by Katherine Sainte Marie, sets itself fifteen years after the events of Neverland, Wendy now a grown woman with a daughter of her own, unhappy and ailing for a permanent return to Neverland.  The film regards Wendy (played by Sainte Marie) with sympathy, even… Continue reading Darling, Darling Wendy: Embracing The Complexity Of Peter Pan

Made with a skeletal crew and budget, Jan Sørup’s sci-fi VECT0R plays like an homage to the sci-fi greats. You’ll spot inspirations from The Matrix, Blade Runner 2049 and even a glimpse of the blazingly beautiful Mad Max: Fury Road. Also Sørup’s debut film, VECT0R is heavy on the special effects, containing a world that… Continue reading VECT0R: Tribute To The Matrix & Co.

Kaine Levy’s period drama Farewell Waltz honours a historical man: Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British Army during the First World War, at a time when it was illegal for black people to hold positions above white people. Levy has adapted the story so that the protagonist in the film, Charles, is… Continue reading Farewell Waltz: Romance As A Tribute To A Historical Figure In Black History

From its opening line of Once Upon A Time… to illustrator Ben Judd’s colourful universe, or the vastness of the Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley in California where this Mexican-based, Spanish language movie is filmed, everything about The Devil’s Son leaves one feeling overwhelmed with its richness in storytelling. A Mexican fable that dabbles… Continue reading The Devil’s Son: Mind-Boggling, Rich Magical Fable

It Felt Good features a kind of comedy that is so bizarre, it is borderline surreal. Writer-Director William Nicol stars as the protagonist, an auditioning actor barraged with the demands of his profession, some ethical and some not quite. And a bit of the latter is even self-inflicted.  Everyday anxiety, mild performance anxiety, and a… Continue reading It Felt Good: Laugh Along In The Face Of Horror