Film Review: Phantom Thread
★★★★★ New Year celebrations have only recently been and gone, but it may well prove difficult to find a more perfect film than Paul Thomas […]
Film Review: Journey’s End
★★★★☆ The First World War might be overshadowed in the contemporary mind by its more famous sequel, but in some ways it is of greater […]
LSFF 2018: Our festival roundup
The London Short Film Festival returned to the capital this month with another cornucopia of new and beloved shorts from around the world. Taking place […]
Criterion Review: Ivan’s Childhood
★★★★★ On the Eastern Front, 10-year-old Ivan Bondarev (Nikolay Burlyaev) is a Russian scout spying on the German army in order to avenge his family. […]
Film Review: Last Flag Flying
★★★★☆ The ever-prolific Richard Linklater is back with Last Flag Flying, a deeply mournful road movie that deals with the sudden loss of a family member in […]
Oscars 2018: The Shape of Water top with 13 nominations
This year’s Academy Awards nominations were revealed earlier this afternoon. Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water picked up the most nominations on 13, closely followed […]
Straight out of a movie! Films that make us want to travel
Whether you’re an adventurer who likes to conquer the wilderness or you prefer to scale skyscrapers in big cities, there’s a destination for you. In […]
DVD Review: When the Wind Blows
★★★★☆ Jimmy Murakami’s adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel When the Wind Blows is a moving tale of a nuclear holocaust and its impact on […]
DVD Review: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
★★★★☆ The beautifully constructed opening credits to Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes are set fifty years after the character’s supposed death, where […]
The most anticipated blockbusters of 2018
With 2017 now behind us – and with it a fairly disappointing year for what we would call ‘blockbuster cinema’ both critically and at the […]
Film Review: The Post
★★★☆☆ Censorship of the free press isn’t an invention of the Trump administration. In spite of the plumes of cigarette smoke, angry chattering of typewriter […]
DVD Review: The Final Year
★★★☆☆ In Barack Obama’s final year in office, Greg Barker documents the US President’s team as they implement diplomacy and foreign policy before the clock […]
Film Review: Coco
★★★★☆ Coco – Pixar’s first non-sequel film since 2015’s The Good Dinosaur – delivers heartwarming storytelling and eye-catching visuals, all the while honouring the power […]
DVD Review: Kills on Wheels
★★★☆☆ Hungarian friends Zoli (Zoltán Fenyvesi) and Barba (Ádám Fekete) spend their days collaborating on a comic book at the disability centre where they live. […]
DVD Review: The Battle of Algiers
★★★★★ 1954, the height of the Algerian War. While the occupying French forces struggle to maintain control of the capital city, Algiers, Arab insurgents use […]
Ocean’s 8: a crime of the times
There have been some great casino-based films over the years and they’re not just enjoyed by gamblers either. What’s very notable about these sorts of […]
Film Review: Early Man
★★★☆☆ Recalling the fantasy prehistoric romps of Hammer – light on historical accuracy, heavy on thrills – British animation institution Aardman return this year with […]
Film Review: Darkest Hour
★★★☆☆ When British director Joe Wright made his feature debut back in 2005 with Pride and Prejudice, he showed he had something new to offer […]