Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGlasgow Film Festival 2022 Review: Fire (Both Sides of the Blade)Claire Denis presents complex, astute character-driven drama in Fire (Both Sides of the Blade), a By Culture Fix / March 9, 2022
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGlasgow Film Festival 2022 Review: Silent LandLanguorous dramatic slow-burner Silent Land is a unnerving piece that takes on the ill-fated holiday By Culture Fix / March 7, 2022
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGlasgow Film Festival 2022 Review: Paul Verhoeven’s BenedettaJudith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy gets By Culture Fix / March 7, 2022
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGlasgow Film Festival 2022 Review: Gaspar Noé’s VortexGaspar Noé’s latest feature Vortex is a quietly sobering, painful experience as it makes a By Culture Fix / March 7, 2022
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGlasgow Film Festival 2021 Review: Turkish Dystopian Drama ‘In the Shadows’Turkish filmmaker Erdem Tepegoz writes and directs In the Shadows. Packed with steampunk aesthetics and By Culture Fix / February 25, 2021
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF20 Review: The Other LambPolish director Malgorzata Szumowska directs The Other Lamb, based on a screenplay by Australian writer By Culture Fix / March 11, 2020
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGFF20 Review: DeerskinAt a punchy seventy-seven minutes, writer-director Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin is a manic absurdist delight. A By Culture Fix / March 9, 2020
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGFF20 Review: The Truth (La vérité)Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda assembles a staggeringly impressive cast for his English/French language debut, By Culture Fix / March 5, 2020
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGFF20 Review: True History of the Kelly GangJustin Kurzel brings Peter Carey’s novel True History of the Kelly Gang to the big By Culture Fix / February 29, 2020
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF20 Review: County LinesThe ruthless destructive impact and collateral damage caused by the drug trade takes forefront in By Culture Fix / February 28, 2020
Film Film Festivals Horror Reviews World CinemaGFF19 Review: Black CircleCult film icon Christina Lindberg returns to the big screen in Swedish sci-fi horror Black By Culture Fix / March 9, 2019
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF19 Review: The Feeling of Being WatchedDocumentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui delivers a deeply personal, unsettling account of the scarcely documented surveillance By Culture Fix / March 2, 2019
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF19 Review: Keep Going (Continuer)Director Joachim Lafosse transforms Laurent Mauvignier’s novel into a feast for the senses as he depicts By Culture Fix / February 28, 2019
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF19 Review: Dragged Across ConcreteS. Craig Zahler’s name was one that adorned the lips of many a genre fan By Culture Fix / February 24, 2019
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF19 Review: Only YouJosh O’Connor and Laia Costa lead romantic drama, Only You, from writer-director Harry Wootliff. Exploring By Culture Fix / February 24, 2019
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF18 Review: LuckyThe late Harry Dean Stanton leads Lucky – which has sadly become his final lead By Culture Fix / February 28, 2018
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF18 Review: Rod Taylor: Pulling No PunchesRobert de Young directs ‘Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches‘ a glimpse into the film career By Culture Fix / February 28, 2018
Film Film Festivals ReviewsGFF18 Review: BeastMichael Pearce writes and directs Beast, a Jersey set psychological thriller which launches Jessie Buckley By Culture Fix / February 28, 2018
Film FestivalsGFF17: Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t ApplyFew filmmakers and actors have CVs as seamless as Warren Beatty. The actor became a By Culture Fix / February 20, 2017
Film FestivalsGFF17: Cate Shortland’s Berlin SyndromeFive years since her last film (the critically acclaimed Lore), Cate Shortland returns with another By Culture Fix / February 18, 2017
Film FestivalsGFF17: Pablo Larraín’s NerudaPablo Larraín reunites with No collaborator Gael García Bernal for Neruda, a film that pays By Culture Fix / February 18, 2017
Film FestivalsGFF17: Werner Herzog’s Salt and FireWerner Herzog’s first two dramatic features since 2009, Queen of the Desert and Salt and By Culture Fix / February 18, 2017
Film Festivals World CinemaGFF17: François Ozon’s FrantzFrench filmmaker François Ozon has become well known for his subversive Hitchcockian fare that plays By Culture Fix / February 18, 2017
Film Horror ReviewsReview: The Club (El Club)The sins of the Catholic Church receive further cinematic exposure after widespread recognition at the By Culture Fix / March 22, 2016
Film Film Festivals Reviews World CinemaGFF16 Review: Christopher Plummer in ‘Remember’Christopher Plummer delivers the strongest performance of his career in Remember, a searing revenge-drama from By Culture Fix / February 27, 2016