★★★☆☆ A man sits alone in a room with a notepad and begins to scribble down his own voiceover. He only writes on one page and seems to always be starting at the top. His thoughts will be meticulous and he will show a certain expertise. When he’s finished writing he will place the pen on the table, neatly aligned with the pad.
★★☆☆☆ Bereavement, mental health, the threadbare US social welfare system and homelessness are the heavy topics that British-born director Deborah Richards tackles in her debut feature. Unfortunately, their worthy but superficial and somewhat incoherent presentation means that Move Me No Mountain is an emotionally and thematically inert experience.
★★★☆☆ Sometimes, it’s tough being really skilled at one thing in particular. Having flown out the blocks with two supremely good, bonafide hit horror films (Hereditary, Midsommar), writer and director Ari Aster had to make a departure to avoid being pigeon-holed as a genre specialist.
Ron Scalpello’s debut feature Offender (2012), released in UK cinemas this week, is a gritty, ultra-violent tale of life inside a young offenders institute. Taking the lead as damaged protagonist Tommy is 23-year-old Joe Cole, a regular TV actor having...
★★★★☆ Alfred Hitchcock is certainly the man of the moment. Not only is the BFI celebrating the prolific British director’s silent work with an enormous retrospective, but he also made number one in the Sight & Sound poll with his...
★☆☆☆☆ It would appear that the old adage ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’ also applies within the context of filmmaking, as made painfully evident by the newly-released, tri-directed British crime drama I Against I (2012). With Mark Cripps, David...
★★★☆☆ Directed by Alastair Siddons and based on a script by Lucy Catherine, In the Dark Half (2012) is a psychologically unnerving study of grief on a tender adolescent mind. Boasting a stand out performance from relative newcomer Jessica Barden,...