‘The Favourite’ wrings brutal laughs and perverse pleasure out of 18th century royals
Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of the punishing dramas Dogtooth and The Alps, was not someone who I...
Blake Treharne
‘West of Sunshine’: A modest but warm examination of a flawed father
The protagonist of West of Sunshine, Jim (Damian Hill), is not having a good day. A courier and...
Revelation Film Festival round up
As the movie business continues to be dominated by franchises and corporate product, experiences like the Revelation Film...
Best F(r)iends is a touching, extremely weird reunion of The Room’s Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero
Fifteen years after unleashing the best bad film ever made on an unsuspecting world, Tommy Wiseau and Greg...
‘The Room’: On shared cinematic torment and the complexities of irony
The main image I am stuck with after seeing a screening of The Room is not one from...
The Graham family goes to hell in the thoroughly upsetting ‘Hereditary’
Hereditary’s bravura opening shot moves through a workshop of miniature dollhouses, inching closer and closer to the inside...
‘Midnight Oil: 1984’ is a striking but unilluminating tribute to an iconic Australian band
Midnight Oil: 1984 takes us back to a time of widespread gloom and pessimism about the future of...
‘Unsane’ delivers a nervy, lurid thriller from the camera in your pocket
A woman forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital struggles to discern reality from delusion. It’s a classic, potentially...
‘The Death of Stalin’ finds the farce in fascism
I didn’t think one of the funniest movies I’d see this year so far would be about a...
Take a breath: ‘Huff’ review
In the first minute of Huff, Cliff Cardinal’s darkly funny, harrowing one-man show, he casually explains the process...
