Films with inordinately long running times are not only intensely emotional experiences, they are physically hard to complete too. There is only so long I can watch a movie for without succumbing to inertia, boredom, or a sore behind. A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery is truly next-level in this...
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Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is a philosophy teacher, teaching in a France going through changes. It is still the Sarkozy era and students are reliving the spirit of the 60s by striking outside her school. She is unperturbed by these left-wingers, saying that is up to her to teach philosophy without...
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We live in a world defined by borders. Where you are from and what documentation you carry affects your rights as a human being. For Nero (Johnny Ortiz), in the film Soy Nero, despite growing up in Los Angeles, he finds himself deported back to Mexico. This seems inherently unfair,...
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Was that even a documentary? What even is a documentary? These are the kinds of questions I was asking myself as I walked out of Kate Plays Christine, which must be one of the most bizarre documentaries ever made. It starts Kate Lyn Sheil as herself as she prepares to...
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From Berlin Film Festival, Redmond Bacon reviews Being Seventeen, Andre Techine's wonderfully directed and incredibly satisfying romantic drama.
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From Berlin Film Festival, Boar Film reviews this blackly comic German satire.
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From Berlin Film Festival, Boar Film reviews 'Hedi', a film that strains for profundity but doesn't quite reach it.
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From Berlin Film Festival, Redmond Bacon reviews 'I, Olga Hepranova - a Czech film that comes from a generic beginning to a stunning end.
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In an exclusive review from Berlinale Film Festival, Redmond Bacon reviews Hail, Caesar!, the latest film by the Coen Brothers.
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It may take place at a school in Colorado, but the parallels with Warwick University are unsettling.
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Redmond Bacon finds new-found relevance and personal significance in the classic film 'Casablanca', in light of the Paris attacks.
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