Two killer nurses stalk the patients of an ICU ward in Argentine thriller The Dose – but are they really dispensing mercy? Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is a dedicated ICU nurse of twenty years working in a rundown regional hospital. His life looks utterly depressing, drudging between his dilapidated apartment and …
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A trans teen fights for her right to education in powerful Brazilian drama Valentina Valentina and her mother Marcia move to a new city hoping to start fresh after Valentina had been forced to drop out of her previous school. They hope to keep the fact that Valentina is a …
A rookie drag queen spends time with his ailing grandmother in Jump Darling, one of the great Cloris Leachman’s final films Reeling from a painful break up failed actor turned aspiring drag queen Russell runs from his apartment in the city to take refuge in his grandmother’s house in the …
Two girls bond in a lush, isolated oasis in dreamy Aussie coming of age drama My First Summer 16 year old Claudia has been raised in complete isolation by her mentally ill mother in a house in the leafy countryside. She has never left their land for any reason and …
Musings on grief are given a supernatural edge in contemplative Aussie drama The Greenhouse Living in an isolated house with her mother Ruth, Beth has struggled to move on since the death of her other mum Lillian some years previously. One night she wakes from an odd dream and walks …
This year the Oscars have been pushed back to April and many films have had small releases in the USA or on the festival circuit whilst still remaining unseen in the rest of the world, meaning the next few months are set to be jam packed with awards-worthy films! Here …
Wes Anderson has called his 10th feature, The French Dispatch, a ”love letter to journalists “In the small French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé the editor and writers of The French Dispatch put together a special edition of their magazine.” Wes Anderson has called this, his 10th feature, his ”love letter to …
Tamara Lawrence, Fiona Shaw and Jack Lowden star in Kindred, a creepy indie in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and Get Out Lawrence stars as Charlotte, a young woman living in rural Scotland with her boyfriend Ben under the shadow of his family’s grand but crumbling estate. The pair plan …
Mads Mikkelsen teams up again with Danish auteur Thomas Vinterberg for the anarchic Another Round, the 2021 Academy Award winner for Best International Feature So here’s the deal, I first saw Another Round last October as part of the BFI London Film Festival and was supposed to review it then, …
Florian Zeller’s The Father is a fiendishly clever and powerfully affecting dementia drama When The Academy chose to make the 2021 Oscars so heavily about the late, great Chadwick Boseman they clearly weren’t betting on veteran, classically trained Sir Anthony Hopkins snatching the Best Actor trophy (and I can’t really …