Abbe Hassan’s Exodus follows the Syrian Refugee Crisis during the 2010s, a very serious and heartbreaking subject. The film shows the experiences of the many families and children who were affected by being displaced from their homes. Exodus is an important and relevant movie depicting the horrendous conditions under which…

Before Apple revolutionised the iPhone, another smartphone changed how people used mobile devices, Blackberry. It was the first smartphone that packaged emails into everybody’s hands. The Canadian-based electronics company, Research in Motion (RIM) changed how mobile smartphones worked. But every invention has its rewards and downsides. In the case of…

Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It? might be related to Tina Turner’s hit song, but it is far from it. The movie follows childhood best friends and neighbours Zoe Stevenson (Lily James) documents Kazim Khan (Shazad Latif), who agrees to participate in the Pakistani custom of “assisted…

A quick holiday to Vietnam, surrounded by beautiful landscapes and a tour guide will change your life. Steven Tsuchida’s A Tourist’s Guide to Love is a standard rom-com (Netflix’s version of Eat, Pray, Love ) that understands falling in love is a universal feeling. The joy of bonding and sharing…

Catherine Hardwicke’s Mafia Mamma gunshots, dead bodies, stereotypical Italian music, and a mafia family who are at the beginning of a war with another family. But this isn’t the film’s central plot. The story begins with Kristin Balbano Jordan (Toni Collette), who finds that her estranged grandfather left her to…

Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an eco-thriller based on Andreas Malm’s novel that highlights climate action. It doesn’t provide clear instructions but argues that the need for a difference in climate activism makes a noticeable impact. Since protests aren’t working, sabotaging the oil fields will likely…

In the spring of 1973, The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) is the sole inhabitant of an island off the British coast. She is involved in a botanical research program, where she documents the soil temperature of a spot on the cliffside. Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men (Cornish for ‘Stone Island’) is an…

Byun Sung-hyun’s Kill Boksoon follows an assassin and a concerned mother whose life is at stake because the corporation she works for turns its back on her. It’s an action-packed movie which delivers complex characters and exhilarating performances with an emotional aspect that doesn’t quite stick to the landing. Gil…

Last year, a spy thriller called The Recruit, starring Noah Centineo, was released on Netflix. It follows a young lawyer involuntarily thrust into a mission that changes his life. The new series on the streaming platform, adapted from Matthew Quirk’s novel, The Night Agent, of the same name, follows an…