July 2020

The Russian Five (2018): With all my experience of hockey coming about during that one edition of NHL I played relentlessly in the early 2000s, I still look upon the sport with a certain fondness. This is a phenomenal underdog story, about the Detroit Red Wings finally finding their groove and winning the Stanley Cup… Read more

Relic (2020): Whether you are into horror movies or not, Relic is bound to creep you out and send you into a spiral of dark thoughts. Natalia Erika James’ movie, wherein a mother and daughter go to check onto grandma, speaks uncomfortable volumes about how the degradation (not to call it “aging”) of our loved… Read more

Sorry We Missed You (2019): Even in his 80s, director Ken Loach is razor sharp in his critique of social disequilibrium and shortcomings. The movie follows up on the exceptional I, Daniel Blake (2016), as Loach takes aim at the gig economy and how it perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Focusing on a working class… Read more

Babyteeth (2019): Shannon Murphy’s debut feature is a heartbreaking ride in the realm of lost youth and boundless exuberance. You never quite know where it’s going to go, taking a familiar template and reinterpreting it. Milla (Eliza Scanlen) falling in love with a clueless drug dealer, aptly named Moses (Toby Wallace), is the least of… Read more