Sugar Season 2 Review: A Noir With a Telescope It Barely Uses
Sugar Season 2 picks up a question Season 1 detonated and then declines to answer with any real conviction. The...
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The horizon trembles until buildings appear to breathe, then deform, then nearly disappear. Jacqueline Zünd’s Heat begins with a vision of the Persian Gulf that feels less photographed than endured. Shapes blur through a violent shimmer. The sound does not accompany the image so much as press against it: metallic, swollen, almost insect-like, a roar trapped inside the skull. The film’s first argument is physical. Before anyone explains the danger of temperatures climbing beyond 50°C, the body understands. Zünd has already imagined a sun-damaged future in her fiction film Don’t Let the Sun, but the terror of Heat comes from...

A hurricane filmed from the wrong side of good sense can look like judgment. Miko Lim’s Stormbound understands that image better than it understands restraint, which gives this documentary its strange split personality: half breathtaking elemental cinema, half motivational profile scored as if the clouds had hired a publicist. Lim follows Jeff and Sara Gammons, storm chasers who drive toward hurricanes, tornadoes, and supercells with cameras pointed at the sky and survival placed somewhere in the glove compartment. Jeff has recorded and studied major American storms for decades, including Hurricane Katrina, where his footage from Biloxi’s Mississippi Coliseum becomes both...

One tyre in the grass is enough to ruin a run, which tells you almost everything about Super Woden: Rally Edge’s design priorities. This is an arcade rally game with bright colours, fictional cars, and a playful retro shell, but it has very little patience for sloppy driving. The road is the system. Leave it, and the game makes sure you understand the cost. ViJuDa’s rally-focused spin-off follows Woden GP, Super Woden GP, and Super Woden GP 2, shifting the series from its familiar isometric racing identity into point-to-point stages against the clock. That sounds like a risky move for...

A wheelchair ramp can be a mercy or a social indictment, depending on who is allowed to use it without being watched. Mari Sanders’ Dutch drama Stand Up understands disability as a lived condition shaped by flesh, architecture, sex, friendship, and the exhausting theatre of other people’s reactions. Its protagonist, Vera, played by Lucia Zemene, is 23, restless, funny, and still forming the loose outline of an adult self when a truck hits her after a night out in Rotterdam. She wakes in hospital with her left leg amputated above the knee. The accident is filmed as rupture, yet the...

A bruised woman praying beside her ninety-five-year-old mother is already a horror image before anyone mentions demons. That is the sharpest instinct in The Voices of Our Mother, Mark O’Brien’s Gothic family horror film about care, inheritance, resentment, and the awful administrative question of what to do with a parent who hurt you by doing nothing. Harriet Scaflen, played by Sheila McCarthy, has lived under the close watch of her mother Johanna, whose death leaves her suddenly unmoored. Harriet’s four adult children return home: William, Annika, Therese, and Martin. They do not come back as a family healed by distance....

Shu-yi has learned the most efficient way to disappear: keep the house beautiful, keep the children moving, keep her husband’s public life frictionless. Julian Chou’s Blind Love works best when it understands that repression is a routine before it becomes a crisis. Ariel Lin’s Shu-yi is not introduced as a woman trapped by one decision. She is trapped by thousands of small accommodations that have hardened into a life. The family looks prosperous from the outside. Feng, played by Frederick Lee, is a respected surgeon positioning himself for greater status at the hospital. Their older son Han is being pushed...
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A hurricane filmed from the wrong side of good sense can look like judgment. Miko Lim’s Stormbound understands that image better than it understands restraint, which gives this documentary its...
One tyre in the grass is enough to ruin a run, which tells you almost everything about Super Woden: Rally Edge’s design priorities. This is an arcade rally game with...
A wheelchair ramp can be a mercy or a social indictment, depending on who is allowed to use it without being watched. Mari Sanders’ Dutch drama Stand Up understands disability...
A bruised woman praying beside her ninety-five-year-old mother is already a horror image before anyone mentions demons. That is the sharpest instinct in The Voices of Our Mother, Mark O’Brien’s...
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One tyre in the grass is enough to ruin a run, which tells you almost everything about Super Woden: Rally...
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