The Phoenician Scheme
2 Jul 2025 - Ruby LowensteinWes Anderson’s style is so distinct that it can verge on the predictable.
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Black Bag
30 Apr 2025 - Ruby LowensteinIn Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh takes on espionage not with a pulse-pounding chase sequence, but with a wine glass in hand, tense polygraph exchanges, and psychological chess matches played across the dinner table.
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Sing Sing
26 Feb 2025 - Ruby LowensteinGreg Kwedar’s Sing Sing (2024) opens on a stage, where an actor recites a soliloquy from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We could be anywhere.
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There’s Still Tomorrow
27 Nov 2024 - Ruby LowensteinThere’s Still Tomorrow is a film about the ever-elusive promise of the future, taunting us with its perpetual deferral. Tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow I will change my life. It’s a familiar refrain – one most people know better than its fulfilment.
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Memoir of a Snail
30 Oct 2024 - Ruby LowensteinMemoir of a Snail, written and directed by Adam Elliot, is a beautifully crafted claymation film following two orphaned children, a boy who dreams of “eating fire” (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and a girl who collects snails (Sarah Snook). With Elliot’s signature dark humour and melancholy, the film explores themes of love, loss, and the quiet desires that shape our lives.
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