A good-looking, well-wrought, surprisingly snappy noir thriller not marred by the delusional exceptionalism that usually accompanies American movies about American atrocities.
Religion, colonialism, space-oil – this is big and serious stuff. And while Denis Villeneuve could never be accused of being too ironic, in Dune his earnestness finally works.
The synopsis makes it sound like an arthouse parody of John Wick – but Pig is also a serious and meditative film about our relation to food, grief and each other.
Heavy metal, pin-drop silence and everything in between scores
Darius Marder’s story of a broken man learning to adapt to a new and
uncomfortable way of life.
In Andy Goddard’s 2016 adaptation, the precarious line between fantasy and reality is explored within a murky landscape of moral ambiguity in small-town Texas.
Director Brian Song explores love and grief through the story of a largely-unknown 1979 plane crash, which decimated Uzbekistan’s FC Pakhtakor Tashkent.
The “unfortunately necessary sequel” doc to 2003’s The Corporation skewers modern forms of colonialism, looking at how the face of big business has changed – but behaviours haven’t.
Archivist documentarian Adam Curtis returns with ‘An Emotional History of the Modern World’, an attempt to chart how we came to be ruled by machine intelligences and blood-and-soil idiocies.
In many ways new ground for director Josephine Decker, Shirley is also unmistakably hers, exploring unspeakable horror and strained man-woman interactions which conjure spectres.
