Review: Mandy – “If Jodorowsky mainlined DMT while listening to doom metal non-stop”
Mandy is the new film by Panos Cosmatos, director of Beyond the Black Rainbow — a film that still hasn’t been released in the UK despite...
Read MoreTIFF Review: The Weekend – “A delightful comedy”
It’s fairly common that festival viewing tends to revolve around more serious subject matter – case in point the multiple stories of...
Read MoreTIFF 2018: In Conversation with Michal Aviad, Director of Working Woman
No stranger to the film industry, director Michal Aviad has been a strong female voice since she started making movies. Before the...
Read MoreTIFF 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...
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