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12/09/2018
#LFF 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk review
★★★★★ Following 2016’s Moonlight, the unparalleled Barry Jenkins returns to the festival circuit with If Beale Street Could Talk, aContinue Reading
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09/09/2018
Film Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
★★★☆☆ In the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, Michael Moore looks back at the multi-faceted reasons behind theContinue Reading
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17/05/2018
Film Review: Dogman
★★★☆☆ Italian director Matteo Garrone returns to UK cinemas this week with a movie a world away from the English-language fantasyContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Can You Ever Forgive Me? review
★★★☆☆ In the 1990s, biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), frustrated with lack of interest in a mooted project about vaudevilleContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF Interview: Zheng Kai, star of Shadow
Zheng Kai is one of China’s biggest actors, but in the West he’s hardly known. Promoting his latest film, Shadow, aContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Sew the Winter to My Skin review
★★★★☆ Hiding out in a cave for around a decade, legendary South African outlaw John Kepe (here played with unhingedContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Lords of Chaos review
★★★★☆ Lords of Chaos charts the evolution of Norwegian black metal and the increasingly bitter rivalry between two major playersContinue Reading
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19/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Assassination Nation review
★★★☆☆ Assassination Nation plugs America and the age of social media full of bullet holes until the gun goes click.Continue Reading
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18/10/2018
“Keep them playing”: Five essential casino movies
Films set in luminescent casinos conjure up evocative mental images of bright lights or dark rooms filled with blackjack tables,Continue Reading
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18/10/2018
Film Review: Orphée
★★★★★ Deploying the Greek myth of Orpheus in a contemporary setting, mimicked nine years later by Marcel Camus in Black Orpheus,Continue Reading
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16/10/2018
#LFF 2018: They Shall Not Grow Old review
★★★★★ Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old uses the latest in digital effects, 3D, frame-rate tinkering and colouration toContinue Reading
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16/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Outlaw King review
★★★★☆ Following up his 2016 western Hell or High Water, director David Mackenzie takes us back to medieval Scotland with Outlaw King,Continue Reading
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15/10/2018
#LFF 2018: All the Gods in the Sky review
★★★★☆ Things have been quiet on the French Extremity front in recent times, but fear not! A director calling himselfContinue Reading
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15/10/2018
DVD Review: Salvador
★★★☆☆ Based on the devastating Salvadoran civil war of 1980-1992, and told from the perspective of American photojournalist Richard BoyleContinue Reading
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15/10/2018
DVD Review: Night of the Creeps
★★★★☆ Fred Dekker’s 1986 Night of the Creeps begins as it means to go on, opening with a frantic chaseContinue Reading
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14/10/2018
#LFF 2018: Sorry to Bother You review
★★★☆☆ Ambitious. Witty. Original. Surreal. Ridiculous. These all describe writer Boots Riley’s directorial debut Sorry To Bother You, and yetContinue Reading
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14/10/2018
Film Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
★★★☆☆ Drew Goddard’s directorial debut The Cabin in the Woods was a playful deconstruction of the horror genre, housing aContinue Reading
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13/10/2018
#LFF 2018: The Nightshifter review
★★★☆☆ In Dennison Ramalho’s phantasmagorical morality tale The Nightshifter, a cuckolded coroner’s assistant with the ability to communicate with theContinue Reading