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...
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....
Read MoreReview: 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...
Read MoreTasting 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...
Read MoreSundance 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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