The Rivals of Amziah King has an interesting cultural and landscape setting, but it’s full of plot-holes, and the sometimes nasty violence doesn’t sit well with its mission to be quirky and heartwarming.
This is the slightly modified text of an audio piece made for the literary podcast Tsundoku, ‘Tsundoku’ being […]
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. That’s the philosophy I was […]
Do you have any family words? You know the kind of thing I mean: a child cutely mispronounces […]
The Sheep Detectives works both as a moral fable and as a whodunnit. …
‘…ridiculously skinny scowling models teeter and swagger on dangerously high heels in bikinis and filmy body suits, one topped by a stupid outsize furry hat, another clad in what looks like a cross between a puffer suit and a decompression chamber.’
Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) plays the central character Becket Redfellow in this black crime comedy about a […]
I honestly don’t know why this movie got such good reviews, even from the usually reliable Roger Ebert […]
An absolute gem of a film. It’s the true story of Scottish man John Davidson who suffers severe Tourette […]
‘…not just a documentary or a concert film, but rather a project that befits the magnitude of Elvis as a performer but also offers deeper revelations of his humanity and inner life.’