“After all, it’s just a matter of flesh and blood. No more than a pile of bone and ash in the end right? There has to be something more...

**** As another couple of weeks pass and my inactivity on this blog grows ever more unsettling to myself alone - not to say that I have...

“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people... Little hungry and great hungry. Little hungry people are physically hungry....

I watch a lot of films and find myself moved far less than this blog suggests. Supposing I was a true critic I would fill these pages...

I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...

Here we go again. It's been a while, I must admit. [Insert existential sentence with as many commas as I feel is humanly necessary to get...

***** 'I am by nature a boy, not a girl...' Over and over does Dieyi mistakenly repeat these words before his master at the Beijing Opera...

****1/2 Often I talk about humanism, a desire for the genuine, for sincerity in much of what I consume. When I escape from the world, it...

** 1/2 As a huge fan of Japanese, European and surrealist-shock cinema, writer/director Sion Sono quickly became a favourite of mine...

It's funny that we all have our little obsessions. Funnier still is how they come and go. For some it's romance novels, others it's the...

Rating: *** I was so pumped to watch A Whisker Away. Like, embarrassingly so. Not a day went by in the month beforehand did I not think...

My Rating: *** Sometimes I wonder if a film had been made twenty/twenty-five years ago would it get the same reaction as it does now? Are...

Rating: * Why Lukas Moodysson's experimental drama was A Hole in MY Afternoon

Last night I dreamt of boy with blue eyes. He found me in at the bar in a sleazy night club, returning my friend to me having found her...

Some women on a boat; the cynic that I am saw very little appeal in Alex Holmes documentary, Maiden, opening in cinemas this week. From...

Last night I went to the cinema out of necessity rather than want. A need to understand a conflict that has always been present in my...