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Rhiann’s Reels brings together my written film reviews and the films discussed through Sandhurst Film Club and a virtual film club, both founded by me, reflecting an ongoing conversation about cinema.
“Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.”
– Kirti Kulhari
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I’m Your Man (2021) Review – Can Love Be Engineered?
In one sentence: I’m Your Man is a German romantic sci-fi that explores love, companionship and what it means to choose the right partner. There are films that announce their genre clearly and then there are films like I’m Your Man; gentle, curious and impossible to pin down. Starring Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert, this
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Materialists (2025) Review – A Modern Love Story That is More Than Meets the Eye
In one sentence: Materialists follows Lucy, a Manhattan matchmaker whose approach to dating is disrupted when she becomes involved with two very different men, one wealthy and one struggling. Celine Song made waves with her gentle, poignant feature film debut Past Lives, which earned her Academy Award recognition. Naturally, all eyes were on her follow-up,
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Touch (2024) Review – A Story That Reaches Across Time
In one sentence: Touch follows Kristófer, an elderly widower who, after difficult medical news as the Covid pandemic begins, travels to London to search for his long-lost love, Miko. In a cinematic landscape crowded with sequels, prequels and remakes, it is easy to feel disheartened by the lack of originality. Then, every so often, a
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Ella McCay (2025) Review – A Film That Tries to Be Everything
In one sentence: Thrust into leadership by circumstance, Ella McCay struggles to balance public responsibility with private chaos as everything threatens to collapse at once. Some films try to balance ambition, emotion and quirk in equal measure, but Ella McCay struggles under the weight of its own intentions. What aims to be a warm, character
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Bugonia (2025) Review – Paranoia Has a Sting
In one sentence: Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed cousins who kidnap a powerful tech CEO, convinced she is an alien intent on wiping out humanity. In an effort to watch all of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, I found myself reluctantly sitting down to a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. I have struggled with his work in the past,
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Blue Moon (2025) Review – Watching Success From the Sidelines
In one sentence: Set over the opening night of Oklahoma!, Blue Moon follows lyricist, Lorenz Hart, as he spends a lonely evening in a hotel bar reckoning with professional displacement and unrequited love. Most people are familiar with Rodgers & Hammerstein, the legendary composer–lyricist duo behind The Sound of Music, The King and I and
“Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me.”
– Robert Redford
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