A Thousand Cuts doesn’t grapple with such global issues as much as it name checks them." By Thomas Puhr. A sobering reminder that 21st-century demagoguery is not limited to the

Paydirt feels more like fast food than haute cuisine." By Ali Moosavi. Christian Sesma, the writer-director of Paydirt, has certainly an interesting resume. Already a successful restaurateur from Palm Springs,

A Book Review by Ali Moosavi. My guess is that co-writer Lehman would have been at ease with sections dealing with the press and politics, while the sex and murder

By Elias Savada. Though filmed pre-pandemic, there is a shared sense of heroics here, be they legal or medical professions engaging an overwhelming enemy." For most of you, The Fight

By Ali Moosavi. Rowland and his cinematographer Piers McGrail provide some respite from the claustrophobic and washed-out colour scenes of violence...." It is something of a dichotomy that such a

By Jeremy Carr. A film more arduous and cumbersome than it is deferential and imaginative." Aside from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 paragon, The Passion of Joan of Arc, the story

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. If the likes of Kubrick or Bergman have more or less been deified, surely she belongs in this secular pantheon." If, like me, The

1988's Bloodstone comes off as pleasingly old-fashioned – fleeting side-boob excepted." By Rod Lott. After 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark rolled over the competition and into the stratosphere of pop-culture