Film Review: ‘Run & Jump’
★★★☆☆ The feature debut from Academy Award nominee Steph Green (New Boy), and starring Will Forte and Maxine Peake, Run & Jump (2013) is...
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17 October 2024
#LFF 2024: It’s Not Me review
★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.
10 October 2024
#LFF 2024: Conclave review
★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.
11 March 2024
Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps the board
The winners of this year’s 96th Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning at LA’s Dolby Theatre. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner on the night, scooping seven Oscars in total including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
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Film Review: ‘Blended’
★☆☆☆☆ In 50 First Dates (2004), Drew Barrymore played a hapless singleton suffering from short-term memory loss who constantly forgets that she’s ever met...
Film Review: ‘Beyond the Edge’
★★☆☆☆ The most recent in a spate of mountaineering documentaries that have attempted to traverse the UK theatrical and home entertainment market of late...
Cannes 2014: ‘Cold in July’ review
★★☆☆☆ It seems fitting that the UK rebirth of Icon Film Distribution – whose final release before an impromptu hiatus was Nicolas Winding Refn’s...
Film Review: ‘The Two Faces of January’
★★☆☆☆ A sun-kissed adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name from Drive (2011) scribe Hossein Amini, The Two Faces of January...
Film Review: ‘A Touch of Sin’
★★★★☆ A searing shot to the gut at last year’s Cannes Film Festival (what a shame it’s taken this long to make it to...
DVD Review: ‘The Trip to Italy’
★★★★☆ Reputedly responsible for a sudden spike in sales of irony misconstruing singer-songwriter Alanis Morrisette’s 1995 breakup LP Jagged Little Pill, Michael Winterbottom’s The...
DVD Review: ’12 Years a Slave’
★★★★★ When is an ‘issue movie’ not an ‘issue movie’? In the case of Steve McQueen’s vital 12 Years a Slave (2013), when it...
