Film Review: ‘Upstream Colour’
★★★★★ Shane Carruth, despite having made just two features, can already be labelled a divisive director. His latest think piece, Upstream Colour (2013), is...
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12 July 2019
Film Review: Vita & Virginia
★★☆☆☆ Compared to many authors, Virginia Woolf has fared relatively well on screen. Eileen Atkins’ one-woman stage show, A Room of One’s Own, that...
11 July 2019
Film Review: Only You
★★★☆☆ IVF remains a rarely discussed topic in cinema, even though millions of people go through it each year, which makes Harry Wootliff’s debut...
25 July 2018
Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy in which the peril lies...
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Film Review: ‘Lovelace’
★★☆☆☆ In 1972, Gerard Damiano’s cult porno Deep Throat launched the short-lived but infamous career of Linda Lovelace, as well as pushing ‘adult entertainment’...
Film Review: ‘Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa’
★★★★☆ British comedian Steve Coogan’s beloved Norwich-based media whore Alan Partridge has bounced back numerous times over his 21-year career, first appearing on Radio...
Film Review: ‘The Conjuring’
★★★★☆ Following last year’s The Cabin in The Woods, traditional horrors have started to seem seriously out of date. Thankfully, with Saw director James...
Film Review: ‘Citadel’
★☆☆☆☆ A solid central turn from Aneurin Barnard aside, Ciaran Foy’s debut feature Citadel (2012) fails to impress as a hoodie horror with delusions...
Film Review: ‘We Steal Secrets’
★★★★☆ The UK release of Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) could hardly be more timely in light of whistleblower...
DVD Review: ‘The Girl from Nowhere’
★★☆☆☆ Jean-Claude Brisseau’s The Girl from Nowhere (La fille de nulle part, 2012) feels more like the work of a first-time director than a...
DVD Review: ‘Mea Maxima Culpa’
★★★★☆ Released into UK cinemas earlier this year around the announcement of former Pope Benedict’s XVI resignation, Alex Gibney’s hard-hitting Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence...
