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25/07/2016
Film Review: Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
★★★★★ The premise of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 unassailable Cold War satire, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop WorryingContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Wild Goose Lake review
★★★★☆ Chinese director Diao Yinan’s first film in five years, The Wild Goose Lake is a gangster flick mainlining onContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound review
★★★☆☆ Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound serves as a history lesson and welcome tribute to a crucial elementContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Cordillera of Dreams review
★★★★☆ Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams caps off an astonishing set of history-focused essay films, beginning withContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse review
★★★★★ There’s something heartening about genius being put in the service of madness. Already this Cannes we’ve seen the exemplarContinue Reading
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18/05/2019
Film Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
★★★★★ Time is running out for the Master of Death himself, John Wick (Keanu Reeves). After killing his nemesis onContinue Reading
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18/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Little Joe review
★★★☆☆ Austrian director Jessica Hausner enters the race for this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes with Little Joe, a modestContinue Reading
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17/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Atlantique review
★★★★☆ Expanding on her own 2009 short film, actor turned director Mati Diop returns to the timely subject of economicContinue Reading
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17/05/2019
Film Review: Searching for Ingmar Bergman
★★★☆☆ In the opening scene of The Seventh Seal, Max von Sydow’s knight, washed up on a barren beach, tellsContinue Reading
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17/05/2019
Film Review: Amazing Grace
★★★★☆ Based on the 1972 Grammy award-winning album of the same name, Amazing Grace is a moving, long-awaited celebration ofContinue Reading
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17/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You review
★★★★☆ Following his 2016 Palme d’Or triumph with I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach returns to the Cannes Film Festival withContinue Reading
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16/05/2019
Film Review: Birds of Passage
★★★★☆ After exploding onto the international film scene with the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra returns to cinemasContinue Reading
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16/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Bacurau review
★★★☆☆ A joint effort between Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Bacurau is an acid western depicting a ragtag groupContinue Reading
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16/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Les Misérables review
★★★★☆ From its powerful far right-baiting opening image of a football-mad French kid of Arabic heritage draped in the country’sContinue Reading
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16/05/2019
The four types of Netflix Original films
Netflix has emerged over the last few years as one of the big players in cinema. It hasn’t overthrown theContinue Reading
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15/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Dead Don’t Die review
★★☆☆☆ Arch American indie icon and silver fox Jim Jarmusch lurches up the Cannes Croisette with the opening film TheContinue Reading