Blu-ray Review: ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
★★★★☆ You only have to dip into the latest episode of TV’s Homeland (the third season is currently airing on Channel 4) to see...
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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: ‘Future My Love’
★★☆☆☆ Offering an abstract glimpse of a distant utopia which might just be within humankind’s reach, experimental Swedish filmmaker Maja Borg’s Future My Love...
Film Review: ‘Seduced and Abandoned’
★★☆☆☆ Shot almost entirely against the glamorous backdrop of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-nominated director James Toback’s Seduced and Abandoned (2013) sets out...
DVD Review: ‘Nobody’s Daughter Haewon’
★★★☆☆ The first of two films from South Korean director Hong Sang-soo screened at this year’s London Film Festival and released on DVD this...
Film Review: ‘Nosferatu, the Vampyre’
★★★★☆ The second Nosferatu rerelease in as many weeks (F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic rose from its eternal slumber once again last Friday), cult...
Film Review: ‘Philomena’
★★☆☆☆ Hotly tipped as one of the UK film industry’s main contenders at next year’s Academy Awards, Stephen Frears’ Philomena (2013) certainly has its...
Film Review: ‘Child’s Pose’
★★★★☆ Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Călin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose (2013) carries on the fine social...
Special Feature: 16th Moët BIFA nominess announced
With awards season looming ominously on the horizon, today the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), in association with Moët, announced the nominees set to...
