Feature Essays
“I am here now because of you” | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
This is a story that takes more than eight years to tell. It begins with a Hollywood studio electing to mount an all-new screen adaptation ...
REVIEW: Rent a Friend (2018)
Nasa (Eri Tokunaga), a Japanese online columnist, ponders the question of whether men and women can be platonic friends, without romance or sexual attraction getting in the way. To that end, she books a series of sessions with a 'friend-for-rent' and writes her experiences into her column. As she and her charming paid-for friend Sota ...
REVIEW: Yan (2019)
Tsubame Hiyakawa (Long Mizuma) is summoned to his father's home to satisfy his dying wish. Deep in debt, and terminally ill, his father needs him to deliver legal documents to Tsubame's estranged brother Ryushin (Takashi Yamanaka) - who Tsubame has not seen since their mother took Ryushin away in Taiwan when they were children. Japan ...
REVIEW: Midsommar (2019)
College student Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) is already suffering from depression, but when her sister commits a murder-suicide of Dani's entire family it drives her to her emotional limits. She takes respite in a trip from the USA to Sweden with her boyfriend to visit a reclusive Swedish religious community as part of an anthropology ...
REVIEW: Little Joe (2019)
Alice Woodard (Emily Beecham) is a horticulturalist working to develop a new type of houseplant that require more regular care, but responds by secreting calming and pleasant chemicals into the home. When the prototype plants begin to aggressively pollinate - despite being bred as sterile - Alice begins to realise her invention is having an ...
REVIEW: Onward (2020)
In a world where magic gave way to suburbia, two teenage brothers - Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt) - go on a quest in order to bring back their father for one day. Onward is the latest feature film from Disney's prestigious Pixar Animation Studios, partially released internationally before a global coronavirus outbreak ...
REVIEW: Cosmic Rescue: The Moonlight Generations (2003)
A trio of blue-collar workers operate a rescue and repair spacecraft for the interplanetary corporation Cosmic Rescue. Each joined imagining a glamorous life rescuing civilians from dangerous accidents and crises, but instead find themselves collecting debris from around the moon's orbit. When they think they have intercepted the rescue mission of a lifetime, they instead ...
REVIEW: Dance With Me (2019)
Office worker Shizuka Suzuki (Ayaka Miyoshi) aspires to climb the corporate ladder in her city firm, but when she takes her niece to a street carnival hypnotist she finds herself to hypnotised. Whenever Shizuka hears music, her life transforms into a Broadway musical number. She must find the hypnotist to break her out of her ...
