Film reviews and more
While the debate over streaming versus cinema rages among the Hollywood elite, many are raising their concerns that physical home media is in decline, meaning that many older films will become increasingly hard to access. From this February on, we’ll […]
Indiana Jones was, is and forever shall be the most famous archaeologist in the world. He may not be a superhero, but much like Bruce Wayne masquerades as Batman, mild-mannered lecturer and professor Indiana Jones has a secret second life, […]
★★★☆☆ As Lisa Spinelli, Maggie Gyllenhaal is the eponymous educator bored with regurgitating the restrictive school curriculum. Lisa’s creative inclinations are sparked, however, when she notices that one of her pupils, the quiet Jimmy (Parker Sevak), has a preternatural gift […]
★★★★★ Depicting British working class on film typically endures a mixed cinematic representation. Amongst illustrating life north of Watford as a poverty-ridden fuelled existence of nothingness, these inaccurate portrayals only serve to create a London centric approach to not only […]
★★★☆☆ A young woman retreats to the Irish countryside with her son in Lee Cronin’s debut feature The Hole in the Ground. Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake) is the literally bruised young woman fleeing an abusive relationship into the depths of […]
★★★★☆ Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz’s heart-rending family drama Foxtrot, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler and Yontan Shiray, explores the futility of war, love and loss. An ambitious melding of three distinctive parts, it opens with a middle-aged couple receiving devastating news. […]