In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review - Sick of Myself
From the producers behind The Worst Person In the World, comes one of the best features in the world… about the ACTUAL worst person in the world.
Film Review - Magic Mike’s Last Dance
With far less stripping and far fewer banger tracks than one would expect for a movie about stripping, I declare Magic Mike’s Last Dance an official flop.
Film Review - Millie Lies Low
Millies Lies Low is an effective tragicomic story of the way we create truth to find our own, as well as the lengths we will go to and things we will have to lose to get to it.
Book Review - The Pachinko Parlour
Echoing the sentiments of displacement, dissociation and longing expressed in Dusapin’s debut, The Pachinko Parlour makes for a short, subdued and tender read.
TV Review - The Kardashians Episodes 1&2
The Kardashian family makes their triumphant TV return in The Kardashians, and they’re here to pull back the curtain that was behind the curtain they pulled back for Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
TV Review - Scenes From a Marriage
Fans of Normal People, Fleabag and Marriage Story: rejoice. Your next fix of authentic romantic suffering has arrived.
Film Review: Collective
Every so often, you get to watch a film that chills you to your core, and properly challenges your belief in the good of people and faith in human nature to care for one other. Even more unsettling so, sometimes that film can be a documentary. This is one of those films.
Film Review: Miss Juneteenth
Miss Juneteenth is a beautiful, warm story about the difficulty of balancing current adolescent wishes, with past adolescent regrets.
Film Review: Vivarium
Vivarium is a very grim picture of what parenting can really feel like, and a horrible perspective of the way people can lose what seems to be their entire lives to their children and mortgage…
Film Review: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ben Wheatley’s latest comedy-drama boasts an extensive cast of fully fleshed out and detailed characters, each with their own independent storyline. But that is, unfortunately, about all it brings to the table.
Film Review: Judy & Punch
Director Mirrah Foulkes manages to deconstruct the familiar dynamic of traditional 17th Century Punch and Judy puppet shows and show the gender-based violence at the core of not only these shows but also…
AF French Film Festival: Revenge
Sometimes for a good film, it feels like we just have to suffer through some brutal scenes that really require some teeth-gritting. Directed by Coralie Fargeat, Revenge (2017) puts us through our paces, asking us to endure a brutal rape and attempted murder in exchange for the retribution of seeing the transgressors suffer at the hands of a woman who will not have her dignity taken from her.