Features

Festivals

Housekeeping for Beginners – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Goran Stolevski’s third feature is a story of queer solidarity in Northern Macedonia that doesn’t quite come together.
Festivals

Gasoline Rainbow – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A group of teenagers set off on a post-graduation road trip in Bill and Turner Ross’s latest feature, billed as their first fiction.
In Praise Of

Why I love the lesbian documentaries of the 1990s

by Lucy Talbot Allen

Filmmakers including Barbara Hammer and Karen Everett explore various facets of lesbian culture in their unabashed, lo-fi films, celebrating the defiant acts of queer joy and activism.
Festivals

Origin – first-look review

by Anahit Behrooz

Ava DuVernay adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 non-fiction book ​‘Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents’ with somewhat mixed results, interweaving Wilkerson’s personal story into one of systemic subjugation.
Incoming

Sofia Coppola invites us into her world with her first book

by Hannah Strong

Archive is a glamorous look at the filmmaker’s creative process, including script notes, correspondence, and plenty of behind-the-scenes photos.
Interviews

Isaac Nabwana: ‘We should tell our own stories in the way we want’

by Kambole Campbell

The wildly imaginative and highly resourceful filmmaker behind Uganda’s ultra low budget studio Wakaliwood describes his own cinematic education, travelling to China to shoot Shaolin monks, and the next generation of African filmmakers.
Festivals

Hit Man – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Richard Linklater and Glen Powell team up for a highly entertaining black comedy about a mild-mannered college professor who becomes a fake hit man.
Festivals

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus – first-look review

by Xuanlin Tham

The final performance of the late Japanese composer is captured in stunning, heart-rending detail by his son.
Festivals

Sky Peals – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young man who feels disconnected from the world around him receives shocking news about his absent father in Moin Hussain’s moving feature debut.
In Praise Of

Portrait of the journalist as a young grifter: Shattered Glass at 20

by Kyle Turner

Billy Ray’s 2003 thriller about a young journalist who fabricated stories for The New Republic is a curious relic two decades on, with an undercurrent of homoerotic tension.