by Mattie Lucas
Cinema from a Decidedly Queer Perspective
Matt and Mara | 2024
In the days since I first saw Kazik Radwanski's Matt and Mara, I've found myself reflecting on it quite a bit. It's an unassuming film, small in scale and short in length, but its impact is something quite lovely and lingering: an unexpectedly profound reflection on loneliness and the human connections and disconnections that result from it.
Music | 2024
Schanelec's films are often defined by their silences. Often outright defiant of traditional "plot," much of the action occurs between what is actually said, leaving the audience to fill in the gaps as the film jumps through space and time without warning.
There's something agreeably no-nonsense about Alex Parkinson's Last Breath, a straight-down-the-middle, meat-and-potatoes true-life rescue thriller we rarely see anymore. Perhaps I'm looking at the past through rose-colored glasses, but there once was a time when mid-budget actioners like this were multiplex staples. Nowadays, you're more likely to see movies like this relegated to streaming rather than playing on a big screen.