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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Raven Jack­son’s fea­ture debut announces a strik­ing visu­al tal­ent, fol­low­ing the sto­ry of a young wom­an’s life in rur­al Mississippi.

Matt Johnson: “People say ‘Now you’ve got to make the Twitter movie'”

by Simon Bland

The writer, direc­tor and co-star of Black­Ber­ry – an irrev­er­ent take on the rise and fall of a tech giant – reflects on his third fea­ture while mak­ing his way across Toronto.

Fair Play review – disappointingly generic corporate drama

by Hannah Strong

Alden Ehren­re­ich and Phoebe Dynevor play a young cou­ple claw­ing their way up the cor­po­rate lad­der in Chloe Domon­t’s dour thriller.

Boy Kills World – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A deaf-mute young man swears revenge on the group that mur­dered his fam­i­ly in Moritz Mohr’s blood­thirsty but tedious direc­to­r­i­al debut.

Fremont | Rotting In the Sun + Sebastian Silva | Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

On Truth & Movies this week, a young refugee faces survivor’s guilt, insom­nia and long­ing to be loved in Fre­mont. David Jenk­ins spoke to Sebas­t­ian Sil­va about his auda­cious meta-com­e­dy Rot­ting In the Sun, and we reviewed the film. Final­ly for Film Club we returned to Jim Jarmusch’s debut, Stranger Than Paradise. 

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.

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.

Talk To Me | You Hurt My Feelings + Nicole Holofcener | Walking and Talking (1996)

On Truth & Movies this week, there are ter­ri­fied teens doing any­thing for social media clout in gnarly hor­ror flick Talk To Me. We also spoke to Nicole Holofcener about her new film You Hurt My Feel­ings and reviewed the delight­ful com­e­dy. Then for Film Club it was more Holofcener, with her ear­li­est film Walk­ing and Talking.

Louis Garrel: ‘When you make an action scene, there’s this tendency to think, “Let’s do it like Heat or Scarface”’

by Elena Lazic

The French star dis­cuss­es The Inno­cent, his fourth fea­ture film as a direc­tor and a quin­tes­sen­tial­ly French hybrid of roman­tic com­e­dy and heist thriller.

Strays review – tedious enough to make you hate dogs

by Hannah Strong

Aban­doned by his own­er, a hap­py-go-lucky ter­ri­er must learn to sur­vive on the mean streets in this dire com­e­dy, packed with poo jokes and crotch-bothering.