Castro’s Spies

Review by James Mahon Castro’s Spies (Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon, 2022), is a wonderfully engrossing documentary on a subject that remains relatively unknown in popular culture. On the surface level it may seem like a relatively nuts and bolts spy story, yet it reveals itself as a stinging polemic of American foreign intervention, and

Evil Dead Rise

Review by Shane McKevitt Since its premiere at South by Southwest in March, much has been made about the latest installment in the Evil Dead franchise, directed by Lee Cronin. Originally slated for a release on streaming, positive early responses earned the film a full theatrical release. With all of this in mind, my expectations

Daisy Jones & The Six

Review by Leah Kelly Daisy Jones And The Six ,(Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, 2023) adapted from the wildly successful novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of the best book to screen adaptations I’ve ever seen in many ways though it is not especially faithful. Very clearly inspired by Fleetwood Mac, the book

A Good Person

Review by Tilly Schaaf A Good Person (Zach Braff, 2023) is the story of Allison (Florence Pugh), Allison singing, Allison smiling, Allison loving her fiancé, and being a person you’d be happy to see have all of that. Allison gets into an accident, and she doesn’t have those things anymore. She has less even than

Close

Review by Isabella Littler Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s second feature, Close (2022), paints an incredibly intimate portrait of the relationship between two young boys. Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable, sharing everything from beds to families. However, the extent of their relationship is questioned by classmates upon entering secondary school. Through

Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods

Review by Gabe Gurule Inside Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods (Dir. David Sandberg), there is a good movie.  The movie follows a family of adopted foster children, who when they utter Shazam!, are transformed into superheroes possessing the powers of Greek deities. They have to stop a trio of Greek goddesses who seek to

Rye Lane

Review by Cat Earley The 2023 Oscars – as per the usual fare – were awash with all the glitz and glamour expected of such an affair. Thoughtful and moving films like A24’s Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front swept the awards with all the fanfare that such

The Future Tense – DIFF Part 2

Review by James Mahon The Future Tense ( Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, 2022) should not work cinematically. As a video essay format it seems more suited to a YouTube or Podcast platform in the tradition of Joe Rogan et al. Yet definitely unlike a Joe Rogan podcast, The Future Tense not only works, but

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Review by Chiara Gregor Writer and director Pawo Choyning Dorji’s debut feature-film Lunana – a Yak in the Classroom (2019) was submitted to the Oscars for Best International Feature not once but twice; so it must have surprised both the Bhutanese as well as the international audiences when it was included in the nominations the

New Normal – DIFF Part 1

Review by Ines Murray Gomez New Normal (Jung Bum-shik, 2022) is a collection of interconnected short films that take place within the span of a few days in Seoul. They all contain some degree of social commentary on a variety of topics, primarily the naive over-reliance on technology of South Korean culture and primarily young