A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Vaishnavi Sundar, “Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood like a House on Fire (Part 2: Medicalisation)” (2020) In Part 2 of her four-part series on gender identity ideology and…
Vaishnavi Sundari, “Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood like a House on Fire (Part 1: Being a Woman in a Woman-Hating World)” (2020) Made during the COVID lockdowns in…
Natalie Erika James, “Apartment 7A” (2024) Essentially a remake of Roman Polanski’s famous psychological horror flick “Rosemary’s Baby”, this film is set just before the events…
British Films, French and French-language Films
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance” (2024) It may be called “The Substance” but this film’s style – in its boldly colourful (and confrontational) visual style, its minimal…
French and French-language Films, Northern European Films
Gilles Legardinnier, “Complètement cramé! / Mr Blake at your service!” (2023) It’s twee and artificial in style, but nevertheless this light French comedy-drama film highlights the…
French and French-language Films
Léa Domenach, “Bernadette” (2023) Any time Catherine Deneuve takes on a film role is reason enough to watch that film, and so it is with “Bernadette”…
Stephen Spielberg, “Jaws” (1975) After nearly 50 years since its release, the big surprise about “Jaws” is that this flick hasn’t aged as much as it…
Osgood Perkins, “Longlegs” (2024) As horror films drawing on past classics like “Silence of the Lambs” go, Osgood Perkins’s “Longlegs” would seem to have a lot…
French and French-language Films, Northern European Films
Joachim Lafosse, “A Silence” (2024) Smooth, sober and straightforward in its minimal style, this Belgian film delivers its punches hard and heavy in its fictional retelling…
Jang Jaehyun, “Exhuma” (2024) It starts innocently enough when a newborn boy contracts a mystery illness and ends up in intensive care in hospital – but…