By Orla Smith. Jenny Lu’s The Receptionist lets us know we’re in London through a series of establishing shots: recognisable landmarks amongst a sea of towering buildings, shot through cin...
In Pursuit of Silence is a documentary from director Patrick Shen. “…a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. Beginning with a...
By Marti Dols Roca. Ghostroads: a Japanese rock’n roll ghost story. With a title as explicit as it gets, Ghostroads (2017, Mike Rogers, Enrico Ciccu, Les Decidious Jr., and Ken Nishikawa) proposes a c...
By Orla Smith. Blood Simple is an apt title for the Coen brothers’ debut feature. The phrase originated in Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 novel Red Harvest, in which ‘blood simple’ de...
Whoever holds the rights to John Denver’s work must be rolling in it this year. I’ve heard his song Take Me Home, Country Roads three times this year. Although, seeing as the other two uses of it were...











