The psychological compulsion to anthropomorphise animals, projecting human emotions and characteristics onto wild beasts and our household pets, dates back to early civilisation, but it
Film review – The Father (2020)
At first The Father appears to simply be a tragic drama about Anthony (Anthony Hopkins), an elderly man with dementia who is increasingly losing his
Film review – Saint Maud (2019)
Religious fervour and mental illness are concepts that have been explored in horror before, with varying degrees of success and sensitivity, but rarely have they
Film review – Nomadland (2020)
One of the most intriguing aspects of watching cinema in 2020 and 2021 is encountering films that unintentionally feel like ‘COVID-19 films’ due to the
Film review – Minari (2020)
One of writer/director Elia Kazan’s greatest films told the epic story of his uncle’s journey to emigrate to the United States of America, in search
Film Review – The Nest (2020)
Writer/director Sean Durkin’s first feature film – Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) – was about the damage inflicted on a young woman who had been
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