Film Review: Long Day’s Journey into Night
★★★★☆ “The difference between film and memory is that films are always false”, muses protagonist Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) early on in Long Day’s Journey […]
Our 20 most anticipated films of 2020
Tail-ended by superb new offerings from the likes of Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and Greta Gerwig (Little Women), 2019 has been […]
Film Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
★☆☆☆☆ Rey (Daisy Ridley) is continuing her force training, now under the tutelage of Leia (a disturbingly reanimated Carrie Fisher). Meanwhile, we are told that […]
The best of 2019: Our films of the year
With Netflix’s The Irishman and Marriage Story dominating early awards season debate – and both featuring in our collective top ten – the streaming platforms […]
Film Review: Citizen K
★★★★☆ Alex Gibney returns with this gripping study of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oligarch-turned-activist who was sentenced to nine years in prison after challenging Vladimir […]
Where have all the great Christmas films gone?
While the likes of Paul Feig’s Last Christmas and the 2018 reboot of Dr Seuss’s The Grinch may have performed well at the UK box office, […]
Five iconic movie posters
If there was ever a way to catch the attention of your audience, it’s with an eye-catching film poster. Posters alone can bring people into […]
Film Review: The Cave
★★★★☆ Following his 2017 documentary Last Men in Aleppo, Feras Fayyad returns to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, this time in the besieged city of […]
Making a mint at the movies
We’re getting close to the end of 2019, and while some people are letting out sighs of relief upon hearing that, most us movie enthusiasts […]
Tallinn 2019: Festival highlights & awards roundup
Seeing out its 23rd edition as the snow gently fell outside of Tallinn’s Russian Theatre, the Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) yesterday crowned Anshul Chauhan’s […]
Film Review: The Irishman
★★★★★ Among the greatest living filmmakers in the world, Martin Scorsese has defined American cinema for a generation. His work has encompassed family melodrama, historical […]
Film Review: Judy & Punch
★★★☆☆ Turning the traditional story of Punch and Judy on its head with a joyously feminist reinterpretation, debut writer and director Mirrah Foulkes offers an […]
The greatest comic book villains
Sometimes the most iconic heroes are only as good as their villains are. Super strength, being able to fly, and time travel, are obviously cool […]
DVD Round-up: Sep-Oct 2019 edition
As the nights have drawn in over the last couple of months, the crop of home video release have been especially abundant. Criterion’s release of […]
Who is the best Joker?
It’s the burning topic right now – who is the best Joker that ever played in a DC movie? We’ve spared you the trouble and […]
Film Review: Sorry We Missed You
★★★★☆ Now into his sixth decade as a director, Ken Loach has followed up the Palme D’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake with another hard-hitting work of […]
Film Review: Chained for Life
★★★★☆ Films about filmmaking are nothing new. From Truffaut’s visionary Day for Night to The Disaster Artist, film adores observing the magic of moviemaking. However, […]
Silver screen staycations
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually stay at The Shining’s Overlook Hotel? Or perhaps book a real-life holiday to Jurassic Park. Well, […]