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THE GUILTY Trailer
THE GUILTY Trailer

A troubled police detective demoted to 911 operator duty scrambles to save a distressed caller.

ZOLA: A Chaotic Road-Trip Comedy For The Digital Age
ZOLA: A Chaotic Road-Trip Comedy For The Digital Age

It’s far from perfect but Zola delivers strong performances, visual language and sound design to make something unique and alluring.

ZOLA Trailer
ZOLA Trailer

A waitress accompanies an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.

THE LODGE: A Fun, Subversive Horror Hit
THE LODGE: A Fun, Subversive Horror Hit

The Lodge is inventive, it’s clever and it’s pretty damn spooky. If you’re a horror fan, don’t let this one slip under the radar.

Sundance 2020 Review: ZOLA: Nailed It
Sundance 2020 Review: ZOLA: Nailed It

Opening her introductory remarks for Zola, director Janicza Bravo recounted how she attended Sundance Film Festival…

EARTHQUAKE BIRD: Psychological Thriller Starts Off Strong But Veers Off Balance

Earthquake Bird is likely to be but a blip in the filmography of both its stars and director.

EARTHQUAKE BIRD Trailer
EARTHQUAKE BIRD Trailer

A young woman living in Tokyo becomes the prime suspect in a horrific murder when her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle.

How UNDER THE SILVER LAKE Unearths The Male Sleaze Of The Film Noir
How UNDER THE SILVER LAKE Unearths The Male Sleaze Of The Film Noir

For a movie that supposedly criticizes what it portrays and updates the film noir for 2019 and , Under the Silver Lake comes up embarrassingly short.

Melbourne International Film Festival 2019: Best Shorts Awards
Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 Week 2 Report: THE LODGE, ANGEL OF MINE And THE UNKNOWN SAINT

Alex Lines latest festival report from Melbourne International Film Festival features reviews of The Lodge, Angel of Mine and The Unknown Saint.

UNDER THE SILVER LAKE: A Mesmerizing Mixed Bag
UNDER THE SILVER LAKE: A Mesmerizing Mixed Bag

While a bit rough around the edges, Under the Silver Lake is one of those films that you’ll be lucky to experience even in light of its flaws, and stands as an astounding sophomore effort.

HOLD THE DARK: Slow Burning Pulp in the Dark Heart of Alaska
HOLD THE DARK: Slow Burning Pulp In The Dark Heart Of Alaska

With some of his most impressively staged set pieces to date, Hold the Dark proves that Jeremy Saulnier is one of the most assured genre filmmakers working today.

HOLD THE DARK Trailer
HOLD THE DARK Trailer

In Hold The Dark, a writer named Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness.

LOGAN LUCKY: This Country-Fried Ocean’s 11 Is Just As Tasty As The Original
LOGAN LUCKY: This Country-Fried Ocean’s 11 Is Just As Tasty As The Original

Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky is one hell of an enjoyable ride that leaves you feeling lucky to have been along

LOVESONG: A Delicate Tune
LOVESONG: A Delicate Tune

So Yong Kim’s Lovesong is a minimalist, strikingly formed small-scale drama about two female friends slowly falling in love.

AMERICAN HONEY: A Road Trip Without A Destination
AMERICAN HONEY: A Road Trip Without A Destination

Andrea Arnold is without a doubt cinema’s leading creator of stories depicting the trials and tribulations of working class women, with an entirely non-judgemental eye. Translating her social realist style across the Atlantic, keeping the inherent themes relevant to the lower classes intact, would seem close to impossible, although due to an unfortunate stroke of luck, the Presidential election has made the general idea of class in an overwhelmingly middle class country relevant yet again. Many audiences have been so transfixed by the way Arnold and her long-term cinematographer Robbie Ryan have captured the sweeping vistas of America, a world completely alien to the council estates of earlier films Red Road and Fish Tank, that they have seemed to ignore the fact this is unmistakably a distinctive piece of work.