In Review
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MIFF 2023 Film Review - Perfect Days
Can truth reveal itself in Perfect Days? Or is it a beautiful simulacrum, contemporary Japan through the gaze of the international film market?
Film Review - Crazed Fruit
While there is much to talk about for this film’s context, Nakahira keeps the narrative in focus with contemporary editing and exciting cinematography so that Crazed Fruit can shine.
Interview - He Valencia of MoMA.PS5
He Valencia (Alosio Wilmoth), is a DJ, online personality and public speaker who was in Melbourne last Friday as part of an Australian tour.
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2022 Film Review - Belli Ciao
Belli Ciao isn’t the most high-brow of satires, and in some parts the laughs are a bit sparse, but there are a couple of genuine ones for sure.
Sci-Fi FF 2022 Film Review - Landlocked
Is nostalgia bad? LandLocked’s narrative enterprise seems to be based around an impression of nostalgia as a destructive force that, in the movie’s world, is the primary antithesis of change or progress.
TV Review - Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99
After the rise of, among other things, the #MeToo movement, this event fits into another, darker timeline. It’s within this context that the Netflix Original documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99 strives to situate itself.
MIFF 2022 Short Film Review - Nowhere to Go but Everywhere
Nowhere to Go... asks us to dive in and look closer.