Connor Lightbody
REVIEW: POOR THINGS, Electrifying Frankenstein Parable Is Beautfiul Chaos
Yorgos Lanthimos’ eclectic filmography unabashedly refuses to engage with normality, and it is all the better for it. Between the weirdly...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Documentary Enjoys The Same Carefree Spirit As It's Protagonist
In 2013, Australian Cj Hendry dropped out of Queensland University to pursue an art career, a business that is both lucrative and often...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: THE FUTURE, Messy High-Concept Sci-Fi Drama Squanders Potential
In the world that The Future director and scriptwriter Noam Kaplan envisions, there is no terrorism. It’s quashed early, before the...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: YOUR FAT FRIEND Is A Moving, Myopic Tale Of Aubrey Gordon's Journey
In 2016, Aubrey Gordon found herself penning a letter to a friend. It pertained to the way Aubrey felt about her experiences as a fat...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: LONG DECEMBER, Big Hearted Imitation Of Better Genre Entries
Movies about ‘making it’ in the music industry have had a fluctuating sense of appeal over the years. This is thanks to the variation of...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: SKIN DEEP Is A Rote And Confused Body Dysmorphia Analogy
Within the sub-genre of body-swap films, more often than not, the ‘swaps’ (themselves usually occurring after some mythical hoopla, the...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 32 min read
REVIEW: REALITY, Sydney Sweeney Is Excellent In Verbatim FBI Drama
To put it mildly, the Donald Trump presidency had a few bumps in the road, and several controversies marred his election. One of those...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: THE BLUE CAFTAN, Queer Drama Sewn Together With Unconditional Love
in 2019, the Moroccan government prosecuted 122 people for same-sex sexual activity. It remains illegal to this day as per the 1962 penal...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: STAY AWAKE Disects The Opioid Crisis From A Different Perspective
In recent years, America’s opioid crisis has found itself being tackled more and more by filmmakers. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED –...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: MEDUSA DELUXE, Audacious Debut Snips Too Close To The Scalp
In various renditions of Greek mythology, the serpentine Gorgonite Medusa could turn unsuspecting people who caught her gaze to stone....
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: FERRARI, Enzo Biopic Has A Flat Tyre
The creator of Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari, once said, “If you ask a child to draw a car, they’ll draw it red”. The Ferrari camp has exuded...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 31 min read
REVIEW: THE ROYAL HOTEL, Tense Outback Thriller Takes On Misogyny
In 2019, Kitty Green’s narrative feature debut, THE ASSISTANT, premiered at Sundance to critical acclaim. The film, which featured Julia...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 21 min read
REVIEW: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Andy Kaufman Documentary Brings Little New To Kaufman Lore
In the late 70s, the comedy scene was taken by storm by Jewish comedian Andy Kaufman, whose act was to be as deliberately, abrasively...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 22 min read
REVIEW: ANATOMY OF A FALL, A Cold And Calculating French Courtoom Drama
Receiving one of the most prestigious awards on the film calendar will always set a film apart, bringing more intense scrutiny with it....
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 21 min read
REVIEW: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY, A Pale Immitation Of Spielbergian Joy
The public opinion surrounding the quality of the Indiana Jones saga has always oscillated between undying love and sacrilegious tripe....
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 21 min read
REVIEW: THE LESSON Leans Too Lightly On Neccessary Schlock
In a postmodern world, there is no such thing as originality. We, as a society, are stagnant, stuck in a perpetual reimagining of the...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 21 min read
REVIEW: AFIRE, An Uneven But Blisteringly Barbed Writer Drama
The annals of film have long shown the fallibility of the ‘writer’s retreat’. Continuing that long held pessimism is Christian Petzold’s...
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Connor Lightbody
Jan 21 min read
REVIEW: MONICA, An Affecting, Delicate Drama Is A Rare Progressive Gem
The mere knowledge of what Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica is about is itself a spoiler for the rich, emotional catharsis that occurs the moment...
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Connor Lightbody
Apr 21, 20231 min read
REVIEW: PAST LIVES, A Delicate Drama, Finds Pathos In Romantic Subversion
During Celine Song’s exquisite and delicate Past Lives – a deeply human film about the pain of missed chances and the hard truths – they...
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Connor Lightbody
Mar 20, 20231 min read
REVIEW: CORSAGE Is A Provocative Biopic That Justly Rages Against The Constricting Patriarchy
Biopics on revered, infamous royal figures run the risk of being bland, banal entries into historical lore. They can be heavy,...
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