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22/09/2018
Bond in Numbers
Following the announcement earlier this week that American director Cary Joji Fukunaga has replaced Danny Boyle as director of BondContinue Reading
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19/09/2018
Film Review: Climax
★★★★★ Gaspar Noé’s Climax is arguably the French provocateur at his most subdued, but it still manages to be a rollickingContinue Reading
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19/09/2018
Film Review: Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
★★★★☆ Steve Loveridge’s documentary on Mathangi Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.) is the story of a young girl’s creative coming-of-age as anContinue Reading
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18/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Green Book wins People’s Choice Award
After garnering rave reviews at Venice, Alfonso Cuarón’s luminously beautiful Roma arrived at the Toronto Film Festival to equal acclaim,Continue Reading
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18/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Wavelengths and shorts roundup
The focus of the Toronto Film Festival might be on the hundreds of features that grace the screens of theContinue Reading
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18/09/2018
Bond’s greatest moments
As any fan of 007 will know, the casino scene is as integral a part of any Bond movie asContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Mid90s review
★★★★☆ Who would have thought that the foul-mouthed kid from Superbad would go on to direct one of the year’sContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: In Fabric review
★★★★★ Following up Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, director Peter Strickland completes his hat trick with In Fabric,Continue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Her Smell review
★★★★☆ Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss), the front woman of punk band Something She, is in trouble. The band once hitContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: The Death and Life of John F. Donovan review
★☆☆☆☆ In 2006, 11-year-old Rupert Turner (Jacob Tremblay) strikes up a secret epistolary friendship with his TV star hero, JohnContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: American Dharma review
★★☆☆☆ Errol Morris tackles his most disturbing and slippery subject to date, Steve Bannon, in new documentary American Dharma. MorrisContinue Reading
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16/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Gloria Bell review
★★★★☆ Gloria (Julianne Moore) is in her fifties, divorced and lives alone. A mysterious cat keeps finding its way intoContinue Reading
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15/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Widows review
★★★★★ At first glance, the heist-movie plot of Widows couldn’t be further from the arthouse work of director Steve McQueen’sContinue Reading
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15/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Meeting Gorbachev review
★★★★☆ Acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog spent a year interviewing the last President of the USSR, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Over theContinue Reading
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15/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Maya review
★★★☆☆ When French war reporter Gabriel (Roman Kolinka) is released from being held hostage by ISIS, he insists that he’sContinue Reading