REVIEW: Somewhere

While some may question what value a concept of individual authorship has within the collaborative medium of cinema, the work of Sofia Coppola provides ample material in defence of ‘auteur theory’. Elevating the director as centrally important to the creative process, auteurism presupposes that in the work of certain filmmakers there can be traced the […]

FEATURE: We’re No Supermen

As much as some of us film critics would like to think of ourselves as superheroes, leaping tall multiplexes and vanquishing the hack director of that latest prequel-remake, the truth is we’re pretty much just average, ordinary, everyday guys and gals. Yet in spite of that revelation (it came as a big surprise, right?) it […]