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Festivals

Challenging representation and centring trans community and craft at TITE 2025

by Eli Cugini

The first edition of the Trans Image / Trans Experience Festival (TITE) in Dublin showcases the multitudes contained in the trans community while providing a vital sense of safety at a time of societal hostility.
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Review

Seeking Mavis Beacon review – Delightful search for missing icon

by Thomas Boyd

This inquisitive and thoughtful doc takes the massively-popular digital typing school programme as its cue for adventure.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Motel Destino review – a sleazy stay in a neon nightmare

by Rafa Sales Ross

A young enforcer for a Brazilian gangster finds himself hiding out at a sleazy sex hotel in Karim Aïnouz’s neo-noir.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

The enduring horror of Kiss Me Deadly

by Fred Barrett

As Robert Aldrich’s 1955 noir turns 75, the film lives on in the work of Cronenberg, Lynch and many more.
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Review

The Wedding Banquet review – an unexpected delight

by Laura Venning

Anchored by a talented cast clearly having the time of their lives, Andrew Ahn’s new banquet is a bit of a treat.

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4
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Podcast

The Wedding Banquet | Seeking Mavis Beacon | The Wedding Banquet (1993)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss The Wedding Banquet, a filmmaker goes on a quest to meet a touch typing icon in Seeking Mavis Beacon, Rógan Graham is here to talk to us about her BFI season The Black Debutantes and finally, for film club, we revisit Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993).

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Review

The Extraordinary Miss Flower review – an eccentric music doc

by David Jenkins

Unearthed love letters provide creative fuel for Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini in this charming, music-fuelled character study.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Scene Report

Inside TGirlsOnFilm: An archive for the future of Trans cinema

by Xoey Fourr

A quick-witted one-woman programming collective offers sisterly guidance for audiences traversing the complicated, misunderstood history of Trans femme narratives in film.
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In Praise Of

Was Crumb right?

by Soham Gadre

As Terry Zwigoff’s documentary about the stubbornly underground comic artist Robert Crumb turns 30, we consider his scepticism regarding the intersection of art and capitalism.
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Acting Up

The quiet intensity of Lee Kang Sheng’s gaze

by Terry Nguyen

Through his collaborations with Tsai Ming Liang and new work with Constance Tsang and Yeo Siew Hua, Lee Kang Sheng has created a remarkable body of work.