Princess Cyd – 2017

Indie films are like high school football players, you only hear about the good ones. Princess Cyd is one of those good ones. It takes the story of a young teenager with no grasp on the world coming into contact with her aunt who has a tight grip to make both of them realize what […]

Steve Jobs – 2015

The genius of Steve Jobs is that it doesn’t just shine a light on the genius of a great man, but instead it highlights his flaws. There is no doubt that he was a genius, but thanks to Aaron Sorkin, we can also see how damaged he was. Michael Fassbender gives a stellar performances that […]

Clouds of Sils Maria – 2014

Life imitating art and vice versa is a common theme in film. In Clouds of Sils Maria, aging actress Maria Enders, the wonderful Juliette Binoche, is a stage actress who is recruited back to the stage in the play that made her famous. The catch is that she is playing the role of the victimized […]

Spider-man: Homecoming – 2017

The reinvention of the Spider-man franchise was not a desperate need in cinema, but for the third time in a decade, the wall-crawler was reborn. Sony has long had the rights to Spider-man and they turned out five solo movies, but thanks to a brilliant partnership with Marvel and Disney they have merged Spidey into […]

Córki Dancingu – 2015

Definitely one of the weirdest movies I’ve seen recently. This film takes its inspiration from Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid, but sets it in a nightclub in 1980s Poland. What makes it even weirder is that it is a musical. The story follows two mermaid sisters, Silver and Golden, who land in Poland and trade […]

Columbus – 2017

Kogonada is a director to watch. The way he executes his directorial debut Columbus shows a rare understanding of cinematic expectation. His style is reminiscent of Yasujiro Ozu in his focus on the length of the scene and not on the actors in the scene. He lets events play out naturally, as though he is […]