“Sometimes I feel I have nothing that’s my own. It’s either borrowed or stolen from someone else”. — Saim Sadiq’s Joyland is not only impressive for its current prestige, being the first Pakistani film to premiere at Cannes Film Festival. Nor is it only impressive for then winning the Jury Prize and the Queer Palm awards. …

Jerzy Skolimowski takes us through the deep and dark world of animal cruelty and exploitation. — Joint winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, EO, made its way to my home city and it was just as harrowing as the first time I watched it. Jerzy Skolimowski’s masterfully soulful film forces us to experience a complex and cruel world through the lens of a donkey. …

I feel like this is in the same vein as upcycling trends where people thrift clothes just to resell for twice the price. This is another layer of disrespect to artists that is so exacerbated thanks to social media trends.

As impressive as a 30-minute continuous take may be, I found myself in a daze watching Final Cut, wondering whether I’d walked into the wrong theatre or if the wrong film was showing. Michel Hazanavicius promised me a zombie cult horror and what I saw in those 30 minutes was…

The feeling of being on the cusp consumed much of the late 20th century. In the United States, the constant threat of nuclear war and the Reagan administration, it would have been impossible to feel that some existential implosion was not on the precipice. But James Gray’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film…

From social faux pas to admin nightmares, my year abroad stripped my character down and built it up again. — My mother used to tell me that there’s no use bashing your head against a brick wall, ‘it doesn’t hurt the wall’. She also told me ‘don’t worry Worry until Worry worries you’. All these little phrases I have carried with me into world and are at the core of…

It’s inevitable that we all fall into the ever-frustrating reading slump. Let me show you the books that were my godsend — We always jump into the new year with a tremendous sense of hubris or resignation. By March, the true colours of our endeavours become undeniably apparent. January is the time for overambition, eagerness, and golden-hearted delusion. By the Spring, we see clearly just how serious we were about our resolutions…

Would really recommend it! If anything it's just a pleasant read without being too heavy!

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s novella gives us the space to empower ourselves in the name of those we have lost — Listen to this review via the Coffee Time Reviews Podcast: Not Your Standard Shop We have all lost people in our time. Whether through death or rejection, we have all felt that chasm in our chest where someone else used to reside. …