Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s new kendo drama epic is a powerful and unflinching examination of parent-child relationships within the rigid constraints of Asian society.
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Mukoku
Black Hollow Cage
This new sci-fi murder mystery makes a hearty attempt to be the next ‘Primer’, but its contrived premise and stilted acting make it one of the most laborious films out there.
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City of Joy
(Trigger warning – references to rape and sexual violence throughout.) Madeleine Gavin’s City of Joy provides a sensitive insight into the plight of Congolese women today, without reducing their stories to the usual, easy-to-sell emotional porn. Having achieved what countless others before her have (unsuccessfully) tried to do, I have no doubt that City of Joy is…
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Riverblue: Exposing the fashion industry’s dirty laundry
“How clean are your clothes?” probes the tagline for Riverblue, a powerful film that shows the high cost of low cost clothing.
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The Story of a Satellite
There are some mistakes that first time, low budget filmmakers seem prone to making. The Story of a Satellite could actually be conveyed as a spoof film parodying those issues, were it not so clearly genuine. Welcome to Film School 101.
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Children of the Night
To those that tell me ‘originality is dead’, I give you Children of the Night.
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On Yoga, or ‘How white people learned to stop worrying and love the om’
The seething tourist trap of Leicester Square in central London might not seem the ideal location for a screening of a film about peace, tranquility, and deep questions about human nature.
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Stooge
This is not a film about Iggy Pop. It’s not even a film about a man who loves Iggy Pop. It is an exploration of what it means to be alive, of what drives a person, and ultimately trying to capture the unexplainable.
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Brigsby Bear
The Lonely Island teams up with director Dave McCary and writer/actor Kyle Mooney to create a comedy very much unlike their previous work – tender, poignant, and heartwarming.
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Swaying Mariko
Koji Segawa’s entry in this year’s Raindance International Feature competition is a profound look at marriage, loneliness, and the human psyche, all through the lens of restrictive Japanese society.
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