Award Winning Independent Cinema

It’s a story about first love. Actually, it’s a story about the after of first love. It’s a story not so much about being in love, as being out of love. It’s a story about the loss of love. It’s a story that deals with what it means to … Continue Reading

It’s hard, from our perspective, to imagine a time when Impressionism wasn’t popular. It’s not only popular but ubiquitous. Images of sunlit meadows, leisurely riverbanks and ornate gardens have become artistic shorthand. Even if we think we know nothing about art, identifying a Monet would be easy enough. In their … Continue Reading

Synchronised-gymnastic-cycling nuns, drunk table-dancing nuns and habit-wind-surfing nuns are just some of the nun-based hijinks on offer in this charming underdog comedy. Set in the sun-kissed Jura mountains, Oh My Goodness! follows a small band of eccentric – you guessed it – nuns, as they enter into a professional cycling race … Continue Reading

Late one Sunday night, I must have been about eleven or twelve, and I’m watching TV in our front room. It was approaching bedtime, so I am anxious because it’s school the next day, when something came on so incredible and awful that my mind managed to make … Continue Reading

With a career spanning three decades, actor Ralph Fiennes has just received his third Oscar nomination. His role in Edward Berger’s ecclesiastical hit Conclave has impressed critics and audiences, and the nominations have been quick to follow. We may still think of Fiennes’ career … Continue Reading

In Adam Elliot’s second feature film, Memoir of a Snail, a young woman, saddened by the death of her only friend, tells her tragic life story to her pet snail. It is a sorrowful tale, full of loss, alienation and abuse, though once put through the filter of wry, Australian … Continue Reading

Adrian Brody seems to be carving out a peculiar character niche for himself – a renowned Jewish artist and genius in his discipline who is left ravaged by the horrors of the holocaust. But rather than being a rehash of 2002’s The Pianist, The Brutalist is more its spiritual sequel, … Continue Reading