By Orla Smith. At two points in Call Me by Your Name, when the central pair of lovers kiss, their faces fade out of focus like a memory strained to remember. This is summer 1983, ‘somewhere in N...
By Brenda Berg. The writing industry has played such an important part in the Hollywood blockbuster industry. So many of our most treasured and inspirational films have revolved around the concept of ...
By Last Caress. The Unraveling opens on a heroin addict going through the process of injecting his drug of choice. That heroin addict is Michael (Zack Gold), and he’s servicing his addiction in ...
By Orla Smith. “When it hurts it means it’s working”. Those words, spoken by The Wound‘s withdrawn protagonist Xolani (Nakhane Touré), neatly summarises the cultural attitude t...
By Marti Dols Roca. Historically there have been two ways of approaching sex related crimes on the seventh art: visually hinting what happened and dwelling on its consequences and implications or expo...