Movies

How To Train Your Dragon review – never quite…

Live-action remakes have come to dominate the kickoff of the summer movie season. Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the creative…

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Lollipop review – a gut-punching debut

The past couple of years have seen an influx of women filmmakers bringing timely, working-class stories to the big screen…

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This Must Be the Place: A Queer East…

This is the first of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together…

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This Must Be the Place: A Queer East…

This is the first of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together…

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The Wedding Banquet review – an unexpected delight

The first explicitly gay film director Andrew Ahn ever saw was Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet. A comedy drama about…

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Tornado review – tries a bit too hard to be…

An entire decade has slipped by since the release of John Maclean’s debut feature, the frisky meta western Slow West,…

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The enduring horror of Kiss Me Deadly

Heavy breathing, bare feet running on the asphalt, and a desperation so intense that it makes a woman put herself…

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Motel Destino review – a sleazy stay in a neon…

As he runs freely across the sprawling dunes of Ceará, flitting back and forth between the crisp water and the…

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Seeking Mavis Beacon review – Delightful search…

Mavis Beacon is considered within the American popular consciousness to be the first influential black woman within the world IT……

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Challenging representation and centring trans community and craft at TITE 2025

The first edition of the Trans Image / Trans Experience Festival (TITE) in Dublin showcases the multitudes contained in the…

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