Review: Emma. – “A handsome and breezy ensemble romp”
Adapting a literary classic comes with the greatest of expectations. Especially when it’s already been done many times before. Shout out...
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LFF 2019 Review: Babyteeth – “A very grown-up kind of teenage indie drama”
The highs and lows of first love are amplified by terminal illness in Australian director Shannon Murphy’s debut feature. Babyteeth is a...
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LFF 2019 Review: Rocks
Director Sarah Gavron’s latest feature Rocks walks a seamless line between energetic coming-of-age and social realism. The film...
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LFF 2019: Lucky Grandma -“A very assured first feature”
Lady luck takes a glance in the wrong direction for a gambling Grandma in writer-director Sasie Siely’s debut feature. Grandma Wong (Tsai...
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Review: Varda by Agnès – “As much about sharing ideas and experiences as it is about artistic reflection”
The late, great Belgian-born, French filmmaker Agnès Varda presents one last window into her life and work. Varda by Agnès is a...
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Review: Booksmart – “Laughs and life lessons”
For those of us who left high school during the gross-out, testosterone fest of American Pie it would have been fantastic to have seen...
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Review: On The Basis Of Sex
Mimi Leder’s On The Basis of Sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second film about Ruth Bader-Ginsburg this year, following the recent doc RBG....
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Review: Green Book – “A well-intentioned crowd-pleaser”
Odd couple buddy movies don’t usually attract the kind of heat Green Book has. Inspired by a real 1962 road trip where a black virtuoso...
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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: 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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