comedy Paulette 18 Nov 2020Nov 18, 2020 "I feel like I'm changing. At my age, that's scary." ★★★ In her last film before passing away, Bernadette Lafont (The Mother and The Whore, 1973) proves her legacy as…
animation The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales 11 Nov 2020Nov 11, 2020 "Let it blossom, let it flow. That's life." ★★★★★ Told in a quaint, almost Aesopian way, Benjamin Renner’s The Big Bad Fox (French: Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes, 2017)…
horror The Hole in the Ground 6 Nov 2020Nov 8, 2020 "They swing from monsters to angels and back again in the blink of an eye" ★★ There is something undeniably creepy about the bleak stares of children, whose mothers are…
romance Vita & Virginia 4 Nov 2020Nov 8, 2020 "If you leave me stranded, I will hurt you" ★★★ Chanya Button's biographical romantic drama Vita & Virginia (2018) portrays the love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sachville-West, which…
drama The Emperor of Paris 23 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Serve your country or remain mediocre" ★★★★ Jean-François Richet's 2018 historical drama The Emperor of Paris (French: L'Empereur de Paris) puts a modern spin on the tale of the historical…
thriller Eastern Promises 19 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things." ★★★★ Congruent with David Cronenberg's other projects, such as The Fly (1986) or Dead Ringers (1988), the 2007 British-Canadian co-production Eastern…
romance Below Her Mouth 14 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "I'm going to starve to death in your bed" ★★★★ April Mullen's Canadian erotic romance Below Her Mouth (2016) is known for its all-female ensemble, with the film being written,…
horror Escape Room 12 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Surviving is a choice. Make yours." ★★★ Following the tragic escape room disaster that claimed the lives of five teenage girls in a blazing fire, it's no wonder that the…
drama Sleeping Beauty 9 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Some people fake their deaths. I'm faking my life." ★★★ Do not let the title of this Australian erotic drama mislead you. Ten seconds into the trailer, you will be…
drama The Wild Pear Tree 3 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Who says free will is free? Even if it was, how could you trust it?" ★★★★★ Acclaimed Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, 2011)…
comedy The Commitments 30 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin." ★★★★★ Alan Parker's The Commitments (1991) offers a…
horror Slaughterhouse Rulez 24 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "This is war. No, this is Sparta." ★★★ Bringing back the comedic duo from Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) sounds like the greatest idea since sliced bread, enriching…
action The International 3 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it" ★★ Tom Tykwer's 2009 action thriller The International was inspired by the Bank of Credit…
comedy A Perfect Day 14 Aug 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Many people hate foreigners because they come with war" ★★★★★ The Spanish dark comedy-drama A Perfect Day (Spanish: Un Día Perfecto, 2015), written and directed by Fernando León de Aramoa,…
horror Train to Busan 18 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Sorry, but you're infected" ★★★★★ Yeon Sang-ho's South Korean action-horror Train to Busan (2016) became the highest-grossing Korean film in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. And, seeing as its sequel…
drama Chicken with Plums 15 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Life is a breath, life is a sigh. It is this sigh that you must seize." ★★★★ Chicken with Plums (2011) is a lesser known drama created by acclaimed directors Marjane…
thriller Open Your Eyes 29 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 “It’s not important what you see, but what I see. It’s my dream.” ★★★★★ Everyone seems to know Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz, but what about the…
romance Indiscreet 26 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie" ★★★★ Stanley Donen's Indiscreet (1958) not only reunited Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman after their work in Hitchcock's Notorious (1946),…
thriller The Invisible Guest 15 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "There will be no salvation without suffering" ★★★★ Picking up from where he left off in The Body, Oriol Paolo directed the Spanish mystery thriller The Invisible Guest (original title:…
drama Loving Vincent 12 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "You want to know so much about his death, but what do you know of his life?" ★★★★★ This 2017 experimental animated biographical drama about the life of Vincent van…
animation Princess Mononoke 10 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite" ★★★★★ A masterpiece that needs no introduction is this 1997 Japanese animated fantasy war film, written and…
drama 4L 4 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "We're not talking. I don't bother life, and she leaves me alone." ★★ The latest Spanish dramedy featured on Netflix promises a life-changing road trip through the Sahara desert. With…
comedy Death at a Funeral 27 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "We're all just thrown in here together, in a world full of chaos and confusion. A world full of questions and no answers." ★★★★ Contrary to lukewarm - or even…
fantasy Paradise Hills 19 May 2020Nov 14, 2020 "This place is a lie" ★★ Some people would argue that endings are far more important than beginnings. After all, it's the aftertaste that must make us crave the experience…
drama Ip Man 15 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "The virtue of martial arts is benevolence" ★★★★★ Chinese action drama Ip Man (2008), written by Edmond Wong, was meant to be the first of a successful film series starring…
drama Handsome Devil 8 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "If you spend your whole life being someone else, who is going to be you?" ★★★ As an ardent fan of Father Ted, I knew I was in for a…
thriller The Man from Nowhere 7 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "The ones that live for tomorrow get f***** by the ones living for today" ★★★★★ Long before John Wick restored action films to their former glory in the West, The…
drama Like Father, Like Son 3 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Can you really love a child without your blood?" ★★★★★ Childhood seems to be a recurring theme of exploration for Japanese director and screenwriter Hirokazu Kore-eda [Nobody Knows, Still Walking].…
romance Swept Away 1 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "All rich people are the same. They play funny little games." ★ Times of ongoing quarantine call for a film that serves as an entertaining adventure, light comedy/romance, and a…
romance Adore 30 Apr 2020Nov 14, 2020 "I can't remember ever being this happy. It's scary." ★★★★ We often look for films that carry the sugary scent of a forbidden fruit. We seek out salacious content that…
drama Blade of The Immortal 28 Apr 2020Nov 8, 2020 "It's our dreams that keep us alive, after all" ★★★ Few films command attention the way Japanese samurai dramas do. However, in a world dominated by five-minute videos and flashing…
romance 3-Iron 27 Apr 2020Nov 8, 2020 "It's hard to tell if the world we live in is reality, or a dream" ★★★★★ There are films one can rewatch for the sake of pleasure. There are films…
