BFI 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...
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BFI 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...
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Review: 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...
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Review: 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...
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Review: 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...
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Review: 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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Review: The Eyes of Orson Welles
The life and films of Orson Welles have poured over by many a filmmaker, and even director/critic/historian Mark Cousins debated whether...
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Tasting Cinema Film Club – A new immersive film club
The latest immersive film club on the block invites you to taste what you see. Presented by What’s On The Red Carpet who run film themed...
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Sundance London 2018 Review: The Tale – “A timely reflection on memory”
As a documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Fox is no stranger to the telling of complicated and deeply personal stories of others. But she’s the...
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Sundance London 2018 Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Desiree Akhavan’s follow up to 2015’s Appropriate Behaviour, is another LGBT story, but this time around it’s more of a drama than a...
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