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18/04/2019
Film Review: Loro
★☆☆☆☆ Paolo Sorrentino announced himself on the international stage with the sterling Il Divo, a study of Italy’s perennial moverContinue Reading
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18/04/2019
Film Review: Red Joan
★★★☆☆ Based on a true story, Trevor Nunn’s Red Joan is an absorbing wartime drama about a spy ring. ItContinue Reading
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12/04/2019
Film Review: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
★★★★☆ For a film to announce itself with such a knowingly outlandish title, you’d be forgiven for thinking that TheContinue Reading
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12/04/2019
Film Review: Mid90s
★★☆☆☆ Written and directed by Jonah Hill, Mid90s paints a deeply personal, sun-drenched vision of skate culture in Los Angeles, as seenContinue Reading
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11/04/2019
Film Review: Wild Rose
★★★☆☆ In the era-defining Trainspotting, Ewan McGregor’s Renton exclaims “It’s shit being Scottish.” As a fellow Scotsman, raised in England,Continue Reading
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08/04/2019
DVD Round-up: Mar 2019 edition
Our championing of the best in home entertainment continues with our March round-up. Criterion and Eureka dominate this month’s lineContinue Reading
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07/04/2019
Film Review: Last Breath
★★★☆☆ Saturation diving in the North Sea is a world of experience that most of us know nothing about. OneContinue Reading
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07/04/2019
Film Review: A Clockwork Orange
★★★★☆ Unlike many book adaptations, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange stands equally apart and with Anthony Burgess’ original source material.Continue Reading
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05/04/2019
Film Review: Shazam!
★★★☆☆ Originally called ‘Captain Marvel’ in early DC comics, due to a convoluted copyright issue Marvel’s distinguished competition were forcedContinue Reading
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29/03/2019
Film Review: Us
★★★★★ Hot from 2017 hit Get Out, comedian-turned-director Jordan Peele is back in the horror playhouse, confirming his preternatural, studied masteryContinue Reading
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28/03/2019
Oscars 2020: Who are the likely candidates?
With this year’s Oscars now behind us, what better time to throw in our lot and offer some predictions forContinue Reading
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28/03/2019
Five movie diamonds in the rough
For as long as Hollywood has been making movies (since 1910, in case you’re wondering), the stars and luminaries ofContinue Reading
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28/03/2019
Film Review: Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
★★★★☆ Stories on the seductive power of fame are omnipresent in film. Focusing on one’s disastrous downfall, all suffered atContinue Reading
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21/03/2019
Film Review: Sharkwater Extinction
★★★★☆ The late Rob Stewart’s activist documentary Sharkwater Extinction is an urgent and moving plea for action against the illegalContinue Reading
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21/03/2019
Film Review: The White Crow
★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes’ third directorial feature, The White Crow is an evocative portrait of Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev’s earlyContinue Reading