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...
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...
By Orla Smith. Ever since he came to power, it’s become impossible not to notice when films depict how it feels to live in Trump’s America. Of course, most of these films were in productio...
By Orla Smith. Hello Again is insane. It’s quite something to go into a film like this blind. I knew very little: only that it is a musical following various loosely connected pairs of lovers in...