Review: Outpost – “I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie.”
I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie. It is compact (less than 90 minutes) and fun. But… I’m a horror fan and my enjoyment was on the...
Read MoreReview: Once Upon a Time in Uganda – “The delight and dedication are obvious and contagious”
“The Beatles of exploding heads.” A cursory look at the headlines about Uganda highlights tragedy, violence, ecocide, and the fact...
Read MoreReview: Love Life – “The kind of special movie that reminds us what cinema can do”
Love Life is a Japanese relationship drama that incorporates humour, melodrama and a sense of the unpredictability and unknowability that...
Read MoreReview: Prisoner’s Daughter – “One of the best films I’ve seen so far this year”
Violence. A difficult and relevant topic. Not just physical violence. We’ve only really begun to understand in the last century the...
Read MoreReview: Maggie Moore[s] – “Highly recommended”
Maggie Moore[s] is a more melancholy Fargo. At the outset, we’re told that ‘Some of this actually happened…’ Fargo similarly opens with a...
Read MoreReview: Beast – “Fun, entertaining, re-watchable, occasionally silly”
Idris Elba is a star. He’s a fantastic actor, he’s so ludicrously handsome that he could un-curdle milk from 200 paces, and he’s so...
Read MoreReview: Summer In The Shade – “You’ll find yourself drawn into the story like a great page-turner of a novel.”
It seems like an increasingly shining age for female filmmakers, and it couldn’t happen soon enough. Internationally, the likes of...
Read MoreReview – The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52 – “Well-told, well-made, and it’s uplifting”
Nature documentaries have never shied away from showing upsetting things, but these days, it feels riskier to sit down and watch one. They...
Read MoreReview: The Batman – “Scenes of fantastic cinematic spectacle.”
The Batman is back. Solid, at times stunning, if not as bold as we may have hoped. Reeves and Pattinson are safe hands to guide the...
Read MoreReview: American Night – “Alessio Della Valle deserves credit for the look of his film”
Post-Tarantino. Pulp Fiction knock-offs. You know the sort of thing… The Way of the Gun. Lucky Number Slevin. Guy Ritchie’s entire...
Read More