Modern America is a country borne of division and one that has no intention of unifying itself; on a now daily basis it continues to break itself up in a relentless manner and Nomadland, the latest film by Chloé Zhao, manages to effectively highlight some of the problems that has caused America to be where it is and also deliver a beautifully simple story that, for once in the early '20s, isn't obsessed with finding failings in everything and everyone…

Continuing two consistent trends in a very consistent manner (breakout Australian independent films being bleak & humourless and the concept that real horror is actually in our braaiiins) Relic is the consistently entertaining, unsettling and strangely emotional debut film by Natalie Erika Adams that circumvents a threadbare family drama with waves upon waves of sub-bass and select camera angles taken from mid ’90s music videos.

Sure to bore people with bad taste in horror films, Relic reveals itself quickly to be…

Baby Driver, the latest film from Edgar Wright, a director reliant on Simon Pegg to make his work any way good, sees him delving further past his usual, sometimes entertaining style-over-substance oeuvre into a world of stupidity over style, logic, wit, heart, tone or fucking drama. The story, if that's what one could call the threadbare tale attached to this elongated pop music video, follows Baby, an un-charismatic selection of pouts as he traverses the world of a selection of…

I’m not really sure what this film is about, something to do with a famous hotel that probably doesn’t actually exist or something like that; I fell asleep after about 20 minutes of it. But I could tell by then that I would never want to watch any more of it even though some people had tried to tell me that this was a properly funny film, a return to form for a director who’s never actually had any fucking…