Film Review: ‘The Paperboy’
★★★★☆ There are few films that can lay claim to being quite so lurid and sultry as Lee Daniels’ infamous Cannes foray The Paperboy...
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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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DVD Review: ‘Sister’
★★★★☆ Ursula Meier’s sophomore feature, Sister (L’enfant d’en haut, 2011), is one of those all too infrequent examples of well-handled, powerful and emotionally-charged drama,...
Special Feature: Between the Lines Festival roundup
DocHouse and The Frontline Club can celebrate this week after the triumph that was last weekend’s tremendously successful Between the Lines Festival (1-3 March),...
Special Feature: Between the Lines Festival begins
Housed at the Rich Mix in Shoreditch and presented by DocHouse and Frontline Club, Between the Lines is a newly formed documentary film festival...
Film Review: ‘Broken City’
★★☆☆☆ Whilst sadly stale in its overall delivery, there are still some delights to be found in Allen Hughes’ fusion of political thriller with...
Blu-ray Review: ‘City of Women’
★★★☆☆ From its initial shot of a train hurtling along a rural track and entering a pitch-black tunnel, Federico Fellini’s City of Women (La...
DocHouse Presents: In My Mother’s Arms review
★★★★☆ Set in the hazardous district of Al-Sadr in downtown Baghdad, Atia and Mohamed Al Daradji’s heart-wrenching 2011 documentary In My Mother’s Arms follows...
Film Review: ‘Lore’
★★★★☆ Opening with the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, Cate Shortland’s brave and expertly handled second feature, Lore (2012), traverses difficult territory with...
