In a film that feels almost documentary as it does drama, Charli XCX delivers an excellent performance that feels both honest and real. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Erupcja’ (2025) – Manchester Film Festival 2026
From directors-writers, Dusty Mancinelli and Madeline Sims-Fewer, comes a thoroughly creepy experience centred around trauma, recovery, and what is right. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Honey Bunch’ (2025) – Manchester Film Festival 2026
The return of Jim Jarmusch, and the return of an anthology style Jim Jarmusch film, delivers awkward family charm across three independent scenarios. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ (2025) – Manchester Film Festival 2026
Based on the concept of seeing people and the world through an Instagram filter, The Draw is one of the best – and scariest – sci-fi films in recent years. Continue reading Film Review: ‘The Draw’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
The title of this film – My Dead Friend Zoe – reads in a slightly comedic fashion, and to an extent, initially diminishes how emotionally damning this film actually is. Continue reading Film Review: ‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Two teenagers task themselves with getting laid and having the wildest time as they enter the new millennium. Sound familiar? Of course. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Y2K’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Casual sex, intimate encounters, one night stands etc. They are books which immediately close as they open. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Puck’ (2023) – MANIFF 2023
A community radio host has the opportunity to leave and progress from his neighbourhood of Kaimukī – the move, however, is as daunting as it is ambitious. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Every Day in Kaimuki’ (2022) – MANIFF 2023
Two tormented characters, either side of human trafficking, find their paths merge into one in FGKO’s gritty adaptation of Rémy Lasource’s Du crepitement sous les neons Continue reading Film Review: ‘Blazing Neon’ (2022) – MANIFF 2023
From writer-director Kirby McClure, Spaghetti Junction is the latest to blend the elements of the socially realistic family drama with the surrealist sci-fi fantasy. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Spaghetti Junction’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
The film responsible for Dan Mirvish winning the Best Director award at MANIFF 2022, 18 ½ is a comedy-drama dripped in paranoia involving the discovery of the missing duration of the infamous Nixon tapes. Continue reading Film Review: ’18 1/2′ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
The best film from the opening weekend of MANIFF 2022, writer-director Todd Stephens presents veteran Udo Kier with the stage to perform a career best performance, dripping in the spectacular and flamboyance. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Swan Song’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
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