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Flow: A gust of fresh air in an era of franchised animation
The film centres on a jet black, wide-eyed cat on a nautical adventure In an era of dimly-lit Disney remakes and franchised animations,...
Anna Jane Begley
May 123 min read


Sister Midnight: ‘A film of experimental gastronomy’
Radhika Apte plays Uma, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage Lo and behold the dawn of female rage. British director Karan Kandhari’s...
Anna Jane Begley
Apr 132 min read


What to drink while watching the Oscars
Ah, the Oscars – a prestigious celebration of groundbreaking cinema or a meaningless platform for movies with enough money for a decent...
Anna Jane Begley
Mar 14 min read


Rumours: The tragic element is lacking
In satirising deeply real and deeply horrendous political issues to the absurdist extreme, the film comes across as almost facetious in...
Anna Jane Begley
Dec 12, 20243 min read


Killers of the Flower Moon: A cautionary tale for a Trumpian era
As Trump stepped into the White House for his second term, stocks of white male billionaires shot up in value and the United State’s...
Anna Jane Begley
Nov 28, 20243 min read


Eight Postcards from Utopia and Romanian wines
How I found myself paying to watch an hour’s worth of TV ads I’m not quite sure. What is usually the bane of the TV-watching experience,...
Anna Jane Begley
Oct 26, 20243 min read


Glow sticks and gore: Bodies Bodies Bodies review
A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies is an endearingly silly thriller – with accusations of gaslighting, Whatsapp group ghosting and ableism thrown...
Anna Jane Begley
Oct 10, 20242 min read


Kneecap: ‘A Celtic flag-waving bazooka of a film’
“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom,” declares Michael Fassbender in Rich Peppiat’s Kneecap . If that’s true,...
Anna Jane Begley
Sep 30, 20243 min read


The Substance: ‘A rage-filled roar against the male gaze’
Carolie Fargeat’s The Substance is no muffled scream into a pillow: it’s a rage-filled roar against the male gaze, extreme beauty...
Anna Jane Begley
Sep 22, 20244 min read


Perfect Days and a cheap holiday wine
My first introduction to Wim Wenders was through his elegiac – and intensely romantic – ode to humanity Wings of Desire ; the story of...
Anna Jane Begley
May 5, 20243 min read


Spaceman: Review and wine pairing
Johan Renck’s latest feature is about a giant talking spider and a cosmonaut engaging in weighty small talk of love, loneliness and...
Anna Jane Begley
Apr 1, 20243 min read


All of Us Strangers, longing and Australian chardonnay
“The past is to be lived with and not in.” That’s not a quote from All of Us Strangers, but from film critic Mark Kermode’s review and...
Anna Jane Begley
Feb 28, 20243 min read


The etymology of Finding Nemo and wine milked from an oyster
With dirgeful Disney remakes shat out of the corporate filmmaking machine in recent years like The Little Mermaid – its ocean more akin...
Anna Jane Begley
Feb 11, 20243 min read


Poor Things, clunkiness and a wine pairing
There has been many a superlative thrown around for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things recently – “entirely astounding”, “a wild, wild ride”,...
Anna Jane Begley
Jan 30, 20243 min read


A defence of rosé
Nothing says summer like a cold glass of rosé. When you’re sitting outside under the sweltering heat of the British sun (thank you global...
Anna Jane Begley
Jan 28, 20243 min read
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