2016 London Film Festival Review: Planetarium
Many modern films are made to be easily digested, perhaps a little too easily, lending them a flimsy quality. Others take time, the...
Read MoreReview: The Girl on the Train…wants to get off
Paula Hawkins’ phenomenally successful book may be ubiquitous, but I hadn’t read it, so I came to the film of The Girl On The Train...
Read MoreBurnt shows why we need mid-range movies
Matt Damon recently said that mid range movies aren’t being made anymore, which is probably true and breaks my heart....
Read MoreReview: Louder Than Bombs
The title doesn’t do justice to Louder Than Bombs, potentially misleading audiences while not focusing on the real heart of this...
Read MoreTarantino wants to improve you
The Hateful Eight is both typically and atypically a Quentin Tarantino movie. It is full of his usual flourishes, beautiful panoramas,...
Read MoreReview: Joy
It’s hard not to fall in love with Jennifer Lawrence. In a sea of hilariously honest jokes, tripping over her toes and Norma Rae...
Read MoreReview: Carol
I have a confession. Sometimes I worry about the readers of these reviews, their gender and their agenda…so I tailor the words and...
Read MoreReview: High-Rise
Ten minutes in to High Rise, Tom Hiddleston nonchalantly pulls the rubberised facial muscles from the skeleton of a cadaver. This graphic...
Read More2015 London Film Festival Review: A Bigger Splash
Ralph Fiennes can really swivel those hips. The camera in A Bigger Splash is obsessed with the way Fiennes moves his (often naked,...
Read MoreReview: Miss You Already (Ignore the title – watch the film)
Beautiful cute furry kittens. Well I can hardly start this review with the word CANCER or you’ll never read on. But Miss You Already is a...
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