Ida, a starkly beautiful black and white film from director Pawel Pawlikowski, begins much as it means to go on – in austere, almost confronting, silence. In the snowy depths of a brutally cold 1962 Polish winter, three novice nuns, a week away from taking their final vows, are quietly Continue Reading
Worlds beyond and within our own: Ascension, Dominion, The Expanse + The Anomaly
We’re going back to the stars people! And where we are staying earthbound, the heavens are coming to us, although if the storyline of Dominion is any guide, we’d probably much rather it hadn’t. The good news is that epic, adventurous sci-fi narratives, which seemed to go out vogue Continue Reading