CODA (2021): Not sure why I have a bit of a fascination with movies portraying the deaf community – while sometimes crude in their depiction, they tend to charm me. CODA does a heck of a job at that – being charming – as it tells the story of Ruby, the only hearing person in… Read more

In the Same Breath (2021): Nanfu Wang follows up the traumatizing One Child Nation with an infuriating documentary about the early days of the COVID pandemic. There’s something in Wang’s style that feels off-putting at first, a personal angle which seems limiting, only to prove the key to unlocking the immediacy and absurdity of a… Read more

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021): Even I’ve read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, a thoroughly enjoyable read about his life as a chef in the 80s and 90s. Although I never followed any of his TV ventures, he was a sympathetic figure and his death a couple of years ago was a sobering moment.… Read more

Riders of Justice (2020): Mads Mikkelsen is rocking the revenge drum in this surprising Danish movie: wife dies, army guy and absent father Markus returns home to take care of his daughter, just as some middle-aged nerds/scientists turn up to tell him that it’s statistically near impossible for the accident that caused his wife death… Read more

Pig (2021): I was under the false impression that Pig would be a John Wickian affair. In fact, it’s pretty much the opposite of that, even though a cherished animal is stolen by some nefarious people at the start of the movie. Starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin, it’s a movie about connection… Read more

No Sudden Move (2021): Soderbergh might not be at his ingenious best, but he’s still had his name on some inspired projects. NSM is an old-school crime/mob movie, with a solid script and an exceptional cast – Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour or Amy Seimetz, to name just a few. What’s more, they do… Read more

Reprise (2006): I loved Joachim Trier’s movie when I first saw it soon after its release, a perfect tale of dreams, ambition, friendship, romance, youth that rang so true at the time. Rewatching it the other day (a reprise, if you will), a lot of the things I loved were still there, as Erik, Philip… Read more

His House (2020): Most horrors movies have some kind of social theme to them, but the recent crop seems to be creating very convincing and hard-hitting allegories to the horrors of various social traumas. His House is about a refugee couple that is provided a home in the UK, but adapting to “normal life” and… Read more

The Kid Detective (2020): It’s hard not to relate with the ageing kid detective of yesteryear, the embodiment of endless potential turned into a husk of a human being. Director/writer Evan Morgan takes a simple idea that could easily have turned into something ridiculous and miraculously keeps finding the perfect nuance to allow the realness… Read more

Automated podcast here. Bo Bunrham: Inside (2021): This month’s top performance on Netflix is Bo Burnham’s one-man-show created during the pandemic. I am inherently skeptical of social media stars turned mainstream, but Burnham is pretty close to swaying me – which, I’m certain, offers him the peace of mind he’s been missing during lockdown. Instantly… Read more

Automated podcast here. Little Fish (2020): A sci-fi romance is usually a tasty treat and Little Fish is no exception. Starring Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell, it’s set in a world where a virus destroys people’s memories and their love story is a bit of a tragic mess. Playing around with the timeline, Tomlin’s adaptation… Read more