TIFF Review: Roma – “The imagery is stunningly sharp”
In 1971, a live-in maid and nanny experiences love and loss while working for an upper-middle class family in the Mexico City district of...
Read MoreReview: The Predator – “Soulless and so uninspired”
Normally in the LFF canteen, we’re fighting over who gets to review what. “Can I go to Venice, this time Phil?”, that kind of thing. With...
Read MoreReview: Mandy – “A nightmare vision of lost love”
The setting for a perfect movie show is everything, isn’t it? I regularly now see people watching a projection of ‘Jaws’, whilst floating...
Read MoreTIFF Review: A Star is Born – “Bradley Cooper’s dazzling directorial debut”
The roar of the crowd is deafening. You can feel it in your chest and your ears object to the insult but it’s like you’re...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Widows
When a heist goes fatally wrong, the widows of the thieves have to come up with the money or suffer the same fate. A botched heist has one...
Read MoreUPDATED: Henry Cavill is Superman no more…..possibly
Warner Bros. and DC just keep on keeping on with their odd decisions. The latest sees Henry Cavill leaving the role of Superman. He played...
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 MoreTIFF 2018: In Conversation with Director Annabel Jankel of Tell it To the Bees
I had the privilege of meeting director Annabel Jankel just hours before the world premiere of her film, Tell it to The Bees, was to...
Read MoreTIFF Review: First Man
Grieving the loss of his daughter, Neil Armstrong pursues his ambition of becoming an astronaut. As Neil Armstrong gets a brief glimpse of...
Read MoreReview: Bedeviled – “Fun popcorn horror”
Using internet and social media as a new gateway for evil to stalk pretty, young teens in the American suburbs is hardly new – film...
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