Love him or loathe him, the late Joel Schumacher's legacy as a master of the camp spectacle is hard to deny. He may have squandered a plethora of goodwill with the misjudged atrocities that were Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, but this prolific hit-churner also gifted us with The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Phone…

A Maltese expat spends his last night in Seoul meeting an old fling, a couple of friends and a mysterious woman he keeps bumping into throughout the night. He is uncertain about his future back in Malta, but these encounters will force him to take a crucial decision - will he stay in Seoul or…

You may be cool, but you sure as hell ain't Alain Delon-at-his-peak cool. That's just something you'll have to deal with for the rest of your life, so you may as well start processing now. A key part of that process would begin with sitting down to watch Le Samouraï, one of the seminal collaborations…

It's a good thing that celebrity culture was eradicated from this earth entirely soon after this darkly satirical cult classic made its way to the multiplexes back in 1995. It's not like what used to be 'limited' to merely TV and print magazines has now spilled over onto palm-portable little machines that help us to…

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar's sprint across the international cinema landscape remains undimmed, and he continues to rush through the firmament with the kind of bold, brash energy that characterises his most beloved works. There are some standouts among his oeuvre, though, and Talk to Her is one of them. Weaponising Almodóvar's expert manipulation of complex,…

Oozing charm and riotous imagination in each of its lusciously animated frames, Sylvain Chomet's animated adventure casts a spell that will have you humming and buzzing long after the credits have rolled. The jazzy, rollicking adventure is largely free of dialogue but rich in unforgettable, quirky incident, as an elderly lady presses on to rescue…

It's a springtime midweek and you're sat there thinking, "what I really need right now is to sit back at my favourite Mosta cultural centre to enjoy an adaptation of a chaotic, erotically-charged ancient Roman novel by one of history's greatest filmmakers". Well, you're in luck, because Kixott is not afraid to showcase the very…

"Life begins at 3am," the tagline reads. It also reads "from the director of Swingers", who soon also became the director of The Bourne Identity. But while Go most emphatically does NOT track the journey of an amnesiac super-spy, Doug Liman's hyper-kinetic style is very much in evidence here, where 'one wild night' is seen…

One of the signature works of acclaimed German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder - which makes it one of the landmark works of European cinema by proxy - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) takes place in a single room, but packs a strong emotional whallop for it. It's no surprise that it's gone…

Before he became the architect of the seminal fantasy franchise of our time (though crucially, AFTER his foray into gloriously schlocky DIY horror), Peter Jackson gifted both Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey with their feature film debuts with Heavenly Creatures. By turns beautiful and unsettling, what is ostensibly a 'true crime' story doubles up as…

Kixott is hosting two film evenings by Silent Art Bogota in collaboration with Malta Cooperative Federation and Cooperativa Coocreatica on the 24th & 26th May. 🇨🇴 Join us for screenings, a talk & discussion with filmmakers from Bogota on indie cinema. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles. See you there 🪡 Facebook event…