Spaceship Earth Review

If ever there was a documentary film that needed to be a documentary series, it’s Matt Wolf’s Spaceship Earth. It tells the story of a group of friends who met ... Read More...

Book Review: Deacon King Kong by James McBride

No one was expecting Cuffy Jasper Lambkin – aka Sportcoat – to walk up to Deems Clemens and shoot him in the head. There was no apparent motive. Sportcoat was D... Read More...

Papicha Review

Algiers, the late nineties. Papicha (Lyna Khoudri) is a fashion student who makes dresses and sells them out of the bathrooms of secret nightclubs. Why all the ... Read More...

Book Review: The Stray Cats of Homs by Eva Nour

Ooof. Have you ever read a book that felt like getting beaten up? One that was so consistently brutal, so emotionally bruising, you had to take frequent breaks ... Read More...

Book Review: The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao

The Majesties, Tiffany Tsao’s latest novel, is quite the journey. The opening chapter is almost ludicrously intriguing. We learn that our narrator, Gwendolyn... Read More...

Make Up Review

After a thirteen-hour coach journey – a horror story all on its own – Ruth (Molly Windsor) arrives at a caravan site in Cornwall to meet her boyfriend Tom (Jose... Read More...

Proxima Review

‘The fact that women are not in this field is part of our social order. It may be undesirable.’ So said astronaut John Glenn, in 1962, at a congressional hearin... Read More...

Summerland Review

It’s World War Two (hey, this is a British film, it’s always World War Two!) and academic Alice (Gemma Arterton) is annoyed to find an evacuee, Frank (Lucas Bon... Read More...

Saint Frances Review

When we first meet Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan), she’s at a party and a man is recounting a recent nightmare. “I never started a family… I have no equity, I never... Read More...

Book Review: Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey

Susannah Dickey’s Tennis Lessons is a coming-of-age novel in the most literal sense. We follow the unnamed protagonist between the ages of three and twenty-eigh... Read More...

Book Review: I Never Said I Loved You by Rhik Samadder

I’ve reviewed plenty of books for Culturefly over the last few years, and never have I found one so eloquent, funny, and moving as Rhik Samadder’s I Never Said ... Read More...

The Kiosk – Sheffield Doc Fest Review

There are documentaries that cover huge topics: race, war, general global injustice. And documentaries that cover flashy subjects: fame, fortune, scandal. They’... Read More...