Alex Lawther talks to Live for Films about Departure
It almost feels kind of reductive to call young British thespian Alex Lawther a rising star. When you start off your career in a David...
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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...
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Available now as a digital download, and out on DVD on the 10th of October, Never Let Go is an action thriller starring Angela Dixon...
Read MoreReview: Blood Father – “Mel Gibson has resurrected himself on screen”
Mel Gibson has become an easy target and a gold mine for the salacious-seeking press. Almost anything he says, however uncontroversial –...
Read MoreReview: Free State Of Jones – “A gripping, thought-provoking and eerily current piece of epic cinema”
Back when I’d learned that freshly appointed Oscar winner Matthew McCounaghey was going to star in a civil war drama from multi...
Read More2016 London Film Festival Review: Moonlight – “Phenomenal, bold film-making”
A story of three acts (and three actors per character), we first meet Chiron (or ‘Little’, as he’s sometimes known) aged around nine or...
Read More2016 London Film Festival Review: Christine – “Rebecca Hall is hypnotic”
Christine sees Rebecca Hall in the performance of her career as she portrays American TV news reporter, Christine Chubbuck. Chubbuck...
Read MoreReview: Under The Shadow
Babak Anvari writes and directs Under the Shadow: a Middle Eastern horror film set during the 80s Iraq-Iran war, that stars Narges Rashidi...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Green Room
In 2013, with his incredibly taut revenge thriller Blue Ruin Jeremy Saulnier was hailed as a new, exciting genre auteur in the American...
Read MoreReview: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – “A wonderful fairy tale experience”
It’s difficult to think of a more suitable Hollywood auteur for such literary adaptation as this. Surely when author Ransom Rigg’s was...
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