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: 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 ...
REVIEW: Judy & Punch (2019)
In the town of Seaside - nowhere near the ocean - Judy and Punch entertain their audience with a marionette show. While Judy (Mia Wasikowska) is by far the more talented puppeteer, it is Punch (Damon Herriman) that has captured the audience's affections. When Punch's drinking problem becomes too great to control, it sparks a ...
REVIEW: Revenge (2017)
Jen (Matilda Lutz) is a spoiled socialite taken out to a luxury villa in the middle of a desert by her rich - and married - boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens). What begins as a sex-filled dirty weekend is soon disrupted by the early arrival of two of Richard's friends (Guillaume Bouchède and Vincent Colombe), intending ...
REVIEW: Missing (2019)
In Missing (not to be confused with the identically named Tsui Hark horror film from 2008) a grieving daughter (Gillian Chung) receives new hope when her long-vanished father's police badge is found in a forest outside of Hong Kong. In her attempt to somehow find him again, she is drawn to urban myths about portals opening ...
REVIEW: Frozen II (2019)
Following the events of Frozen, the kingdom of Arendelle lives in a state of peace under Queen Elsa (Idina Menzell) - but when Elsa starts hearing a singing voice calling to her from far away, she is compelled to follow it. Along with her sister Anna (Kristen Bell), friend Cristoff (Jonathan Groff), reindeer Sven, and ...
REVIEW: Good-bye (2020)
Sakura (Mayuko Fukuda) lives with her mother in suburban Japan. Having recently quit an unsatisfying job, she makes a temporary living filling in at a local nursery school. After making a connection with one of the students, she then meets the girl’s father Shindo - who bears an uncanny familiarity to her own largely absent ...
