DVD Review: The Bookshop
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name; The Bookshop is set in 1959, Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), a free-spirited...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: The Fight – “A debut film that more than punches its weight”
Jessica Hynes might best known as a comedy actress, but it’s the drama of the everyday she ’s exploring in her first feature as a...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Been So Long – “A celebration of love”
A musical based in London’s Camden, Tinge Krishnan’s Been So Long is a romantic drama that follows Simone (Michaela Coel), a single mother...
Read MoreGrimmfest 2018 Review: Summer of 84 – “A fun throwback horror-thriller”
Summer of 84 is more or less a riff on a lot of Joe Dante projects, especially The ‘Burbs, but done very well. As the title suggests, it’s...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: The Kindergarten Teacher – “Heart-breaking and beautiful”
Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Lisa, a kindergarten teacher trying to reawaken her own creativity by taking an evening class in poetry outside...
Read MoreGrimmfest 2018 Review – Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – “Some of the most creative death scenes I’ve seen in a long time”
A reboot of the Charles Band’s Puppet Master franchise, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is the 13th film in the series… and quite...
Read MoreReview: Halloween – “Made with palpable care and obvious love and respect”
40 years after John Carpenter’s original Halloween changed the face of independent filmmaking and made an unforgettable impact on the...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Wild Rose – “An engaging, investing and ultimately joyous film”
In Tom Harper’s Wild Rose, Jessie Buckley (star of the excellent Beast) plays Rose-Lynn, a woman fresh out of a year in jail who’s trying...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Sorry To Bother You – “Margaret Atwood territory with a dash of Monty Python”
The word ‘genius’ is so casually thrown around that when a work of real genius arrives, it can get overlooked. Sorry To Bother You is a...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Out Of Blue – “Flashes of brilliance”
Carol Morley is an investigator behind the camera; it’s the common thread that runs through her films. From the fragments of memories from...
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