BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: The Fight – “A debut film that more than punches its weight”
Jessica Hynes might best known as a comedy actress, but it’s the drama of the everyday she ’s exploring in her first feature as a...
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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Been So Long – “A celebration of love”
A musical based in London’s Camden, Tinge Krishnan’s Been So Long is a romantic drama that follows Simone (Michaela Coel), a single mother...
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Grimmfest 2018 Review: Summer of 84 – “A fun throwback horror-thriller”
Summer of 84 is more or less a riff on a lot of Joe Dante projects, especially The ‘Burbs, but done very well. As the title suggests, it’s...
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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: The Kindergarten Teacher – “Heart-breaking and beautiful”
Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Lisa, a kindergarten teacher trying to reawaken her own creativity by taking an evening class in poetry outside...
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Grimmfest 2018 Review – Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – “Some of the most creative death scenes I’ve seen in a long time”
A reboot of the Charles Band’s Puppet Master franchise, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is the 13th film in the series… and quite...
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Review: Halloween – “Made with palpable care and obvious love and respect”
40 years after John Carpenter’s original Halloween changed the face of independent filmmaking and made an unforgettable impact on the...
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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Wild Rose – “An engaging, investing and ultimately joyous film”
In Tom Harper’s Wild Rose, Jessie Buckley (star of the excellent Beast) plays Rose-Lynn, a woman fresh out of a year in jail who’s trying...
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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Sorry To Bother You – “Margaret Atwood territory with a dash of Monty Python”
The word ‘genius’ is so casually thrown around that when a work of real genius arrives, it can get overlooked. Sorry To Bother You is a...
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BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Out Of Blue – “Flashes of brilliance”
Carol Morley is an investigator behind the camera; it’s the common thread that runs through her films. From the fragments of memories from...
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Panos Cosmatos talks about the making of Mandy
Panos Cosmatos’s follow-up to his cult classic, Beyond the Black Rainbow (which still hasn’t received international distribution), is...
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