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....
Read MoreReview: 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...
Read MoreBFI 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...
Read MoreBFI 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...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Widows – “The script is sharp as a knife”
Steve McQueen got the 62nd BFI London Film Festival off to an explosive start with his female fronted heist. Adapted from Lynda La...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Bad Reputation – The new Joan Jett documentary
Rock docs can often be a pretty standard cut-up of the archive and talking heads. Director Kevin Kerslake’s Joan Jett film Bad Reputation...
Read MoreReview: A Simple Favour – “Wickedly silly”
The trailer for A Simple Favour makes Paul Feig’s latest film look like a modern thriller in the Gone Girl vein. But it isn’t that. It’s a...
Read MoreReview: Anchor and Hope
As a small houseboat emerges from the dark on the tunnel. London’s Regent’s canal provides both the setting and rhythm of this romantic...
Read MoreReview: Distant Voices, Still Lives
A 30th-anniversary re-release of writer-director Terence Davies’ WW2 and postwar era family drama. A semi-autobiographical film, drawn...
Read MoreReview: Rebecca at Somerset House for Film4 Summer Screen
I can think of fewer places more perfect to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning 1940 adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca....
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