• London Korean Film Festival: In Between Seasons

    An Indie drama about damaged relationships and the twin processes of forgiveness and repentance, In Between Seasons boasts an absorbing plot and a solid cast. While it is unnecessarily slow in some parts, the feelings of warmth and affirmation it leaves us with are worth the wait. In Between...
  • Asian Film Bucket List: Pink

    Pink is a feminist film that covers all bases, from universal issues of victim-blaming and rape myths to more specifically Indian ones, such as stereotypes faced by North-East Indian women. It succeeds as a social commentary without sacrificing character development, ensuring we feel each victory and loss of its...
  • Film Review: Call Me By Your Name

    The tragedy of Call Me By Your Name is always in plain sight. A guest who comes must eventually go, and the headiness of summer will inevitably end. Summer flings aren’t bound to last, even if you are only seventeen and have never wanted anything, or any person, so...
  • Asian Bucket List: Starry Starry Night

    A portrayal of both growing pleasures and pains based on the Taiwanese illustrated novel of the same name, Starry Starry Night is a movie that will rouse even the hardest of hearts. Tom Shu-Yu Lin complements varied visuals with a carefully chosen soundtrack, rendering his movie a captivating spectacle...
  • Halloween Special: Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game On Netflix

    With an attempt to franchise The Dark Tower, Pennywise the clown terrorising audiences in what is set to be film of the year, and Netflix’s attempt to redo cult classic The Mist, it’s been raining Steven King adaptations this year. Seemingly overshadowed its siblings, however, September brought us the...
  • The Death of Stalin: A Proper 80s Comedy (That’s Set in the 50s)

    For a film centred around the untimely demise of one of history’s most notorious dictators, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin does a surprisingly good job of presenting the violence-ridden power struggle as something of a Shakespearean farce. The story itself is a simple one: a leader dies suddenly,...
  • Thor: Ragnarok Review

    Thor, stripped of his famed hammer Mjolnir, finds himself stranded on the edge of the galaxy. There he must assemble a team of fellow heroes to rescue Asgard from the clutches of Hela, goddess of death, and prevent Ragnarok, the annihilation of his home. “The Thor films have, up...