“All barks have been rendered into English,” states the first on-screen note in Wes Anderson’s ninth feature film Isle of Dogs, an animated treasure featuring the minutely detailed, symmetrically shot and visually stunning elements that make a Wes Anderson film. While his second stop-motion foray is a compelling fable about political hysteria, deportation and greed,… Read More Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs

At times Alex Garland’s Annihilation is visually stunning and cosmically surreal, but his follow up to Ex Machina, based on the first novel of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, is so utterly confounding and vague that we have no idea what the film is trying to say – and so hard to follow that we… Read More Alex Garland’s Annihilation

Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s triumphant yet emotionally devastating adaptation of Andre Aciman’s novel Call me by Your Name presents a stunning portrayal of the teenage, sexual coming-of-age experience – an unprecedented gift of realism for 17 year-olds – through both tasteful eroticism and profound tragedy. Set in the summer of 1983 in the northern Italian… Read More Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name

In The Florida Project, director Sean Baker presents an authentic coming-of-age film set in a welfare motel on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida – a destitute and forgotten region in the shadows of Disney World. Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) is a precocious six years old. She and her two friends Jancey (Valleria Cotto) and Scooty (Cristopher… Read More Sean Baker’s The Florida Project

“We cannot be lovers/Long as I am the other” croons Moses Sumney in his transcendental, soulful debut album Aromanticism. Sumney presents an alternative perspective on intimacy and aloneness in the modern age. Since his emergence in 2014 as a multi-instrumentalist with an impressive vocal range, Sumney has performed alongside accomplished singer-songwriters like Sufjan Stevens, James… Read More Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism questions our perception of love in the modern age