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08/10/2018
Criterion Review: Cold Water
★★★★☆ Olivier Assayas’ 1994 film Cold Water is just that – a sharp splash of punk cinema, adolescent romance and surrealist imagery,Continue Reading
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08/10/2018
Film Review: Female Human Animal
★★★☆☆ Shot on analogue video, Josh Appignanesi’s Female Human Animal is a visually arresting, surrealist piece whose reach occasionally exceeds itsContinue Reading
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06/10/2018
2018 Filmfest Hamburg round-up
This year’s Filmfest Hamburg coincided with the city’s football derby. A fiercely contested match between the city’s two biggest clubs,Continue Reading
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05/10/2018
Film Review: Venom
★★☆☆☆ Intended as the first film in Sony Pictures’ wider Marvel Universe, the Tom Hardy-starring Venom is a desperately confusedContinue Reading
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03/10/2018
Cambridge Film Festival 2018 preview
The Cambridge Film Festival is an annual event celebrating the best of British and international cinema. It is organised byContinue Reading
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27/09/2018
Film Review: The Wife
★★★★★ Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has intellect, charm, and elegant diplomacy. Her husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce), meanwhile, is the personificationContinue Reading
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26/09/2018
Film Review: Two for Joy
★★★☆☆ Samantha Morton stars as a mother sinking deeper into a harrowing depression and struggling to care for her twoContinue Reading
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24/09/2018
DVD Review: Eye of the Needle
★★★☆☆ A British war-time thriller with a difference, Eye of the Needle is played out as far removed from thoseContinue Reading
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22/09/2018
Idris Elba: getting to know the potential new 007
Rumours surrounding who will play the next James Bond have been circulating since before Daniel Craig had even made Spectre.Continue Reading
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22/09/2018
Are casino movies poised to make a comeback?
Like many industries, film is one of patterns, of ebbs and flows. This makes sense, as mass media tends toContinue Reading
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22/09/2018
Bond in Numbers
Following the announcement earlier this week that American director Cary Joji Fukunaga has replaced Danny Boyle as director of BondContinue Reading
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19/09/2018
Film Review: Climax
★★★★★ Gaspar Noé’s Climax is arguably the French provocateur at his most subdued, but it still manages to be a rollickingContinue Reading
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19/09/2018
Film Review: Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
★★★★☆ Steve Loveridge’s documentary on Mathangi Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.) is the story of a young girl’s creative coming-of-age as anContinue Reading
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18/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Green Book wins People’s Choice Award
After garnering rave reviews at Venice, Alfonso Cuarón’s luminously beautiful Roma arrived at the Toronto Film Festival to equal acclaim,Continue Reading
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18/09/2018
Toronto 2018: Wavelengths and shorts roundup
The focus of the Toronto Film Festival might be on the hundreds of features that grace the screens of theContinue Reading