The British film scene has become synonymous with the rough-talkin’, underground gangster world that seems to thrive under our murky, grey skies. The gritty realism that is often absent in bigger budg...
By Orla Smith. In many ways, The Beguiled is the most ‘Sofia Coppola’ that a Sofia Coppola movie has ever been. Almost everything she’s done has revealed her fascination with women w...
By Orla Smith. There is a moment in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja when all concepts of quality spin out of whack. I can tell you exactly when that is: just a hair over the 20 minute mark, at the instant w...
By Orla Smith. For her opera directing debut, Sofia Coppola has chosen Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata – and no more fitting a choice could have been made. Translated from Italian to English,...
By Orla Smith. It’s hard to believe that half of 2017 has passed already, just as it’s hard to believe that we’ve got a whole other half of this yet to go. In the midst of many other...