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★★★☆☆ Stephen Chbosky’s directorial debut sees him adapt his own novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, for the big screen. A coming-of-age drama starring Logan Lerman, We Need to Talk about Kevin’s Ezra Miller and Emma Watson in her […]
★★☆☆☆ Setting aside its overall quality (more on that later), emerging filmmaking talent Oliver S. Milburn’s micro-budget supernatural thriller The Harsh Light of Day (2012) deserves substantial praise for its indie production model. Shot for relative peanuts with a cast […]
★★☆☆☆ Fabrizio Federico’s Black Biscuit (2011) is the flagship film of the director’s Pink8 Manifesto – a new movement based loosely on the principles of Dogme 95, but with a stronger focus on improvisation and breaking away from the linear […]
★★★☆☆ After 12 years, eight record-breaking films and a total box office gross of over £5 billion, the Harry Potter franchise finally came to end for UK audiences back in July 2011 with the cinematic release of Harry Potter and […]
★★☆☆☆ The 2011 Sundance Film Festival saw the premiere of Nicholas McCarthy’s fourth short film. One year later, the director returns with his debut feature, a reworking of that very same short in the form of The Pact (2012). Adopting […]