The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga opens with a brooding monologue on the wild. Over the centuries, humans have escaped its clutches. We have built houses, roads, cities, fences, and now we have ‘nature reserves’, which perhaps are something of a joke. We flaunt our power over the wild, our complete subjugation of its […]

Children of the Pyre follows the lives of a group of about ten Indian children. Born into the lowest caste in the holy city of Varanasi, they make their way in the world (and a little money for their parents on a good day) gathering shrouds from bodies brought to the Ganges riverside to be […]

Director Sophie Fillières' latest film is worth consideration. Someone's got to review it, and if you don't, Michael Nguyen-Huynh will.

Doll & Em, the television brainchild of actresses Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, is the latest work in what seems to be a post-modern trend of established actors playing themselves. Where director Azazel Jacobs’s new comedy series finds its particular edge amongst these works, is through co-writers Wells and Mortimer’s complete willingness to embrace the […]

Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht’s new documentary, Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, opens with the band’s front-man, Jarvis Cocker, recounting a dream he had of changing a car tyre. It’s an appropriately everyday image that begins this film about a band so interested in the ordinary. Cocker’s collaboration with Habicht was fitting too. […]