REVIEW | ISSUE NINE | WHAKAKATA / HUMOUR Written by Trevor Pronoso | Letterboxd: @CleverGurl | Instagram: @trev.pro | Contributing Writer With Hasan in Gaza (2025) dir. Kamal Aljafari France / Germany / Palestine / Qatar / Switzerland, 106 mins Within the first 30 minutes of this film, I could already tell the differing cinematic temperaments of director Kamal Aljafari and his tour guide, Hasan Elboubou. Throughout With Hasan in Gaza, Kamal would often instruct Hasan to take the camera and...

REVIEW | ISSUE NINE | WHAKAKATA / HUMOUR Written by Trevor Pronoso | Letterboxd: @CleverGurl | Instagram: @trev.pro | Contributing Writer Out of the Blue (2006) dir. Robert Sarkies Aotearoa New Zealand, 103 mins During the post-screening Q&A, actor Matthew Sunderland shares something remarkably revealing when asked about the process of getting into the character of David Grey: that it was relatively easy to understand the psyche of David because most of what he needed to know was covered in...

The Work of Cinema in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction WEB EXCLUSIVE Written by Trevor Pronoso | Contributing Writer Last February, the Library of Congress discovered what was thought to be a lost film by renowned early cinema illusionist Georges Méliès titled Gugusse and the Automaton (1897). What makes this film uniquely special isn't just limited to film historians and cinephiles (though it doesn't hurt to see more recovered films lost to time). What makes this film truly worth your...