Review: Blade Runner 2049 – “An existential masterpiece”
Director Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to Ridley Scott’s seminal tech noir opus Blade Runner is a transcendental sequel that...
Read More4K Review: Blade Runner – “A beautiful and brutal sensory overload”
It’s 2019, 35 years ago. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a Blade Runner, who’s task it is to hunt and destroy four replicants – androids...
Read MoreLondon Film Festival Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women – “Sensual and smart”
Written and directed by Angela Robinson, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is the unconventional true story of one psychology...
Read MoreLondon Film Festival Review: The Meyerowitz Stories – “Tales well told”
Dustin Hoffman found himself stepping in to defend Noah Baumbach when the writer/director was (I suspect, not for the first time) asked if...
Read MoreReview: Blade of the Immortal – “Wildly entertaining and bloody fun”
The man who brought audiences the disturbing Audition and Ichi the Killer is back. And this time, there’s no limit to the amount of film...
Read MoreLondon Film Festival Review: Michael Haneke’s Happy End – “Fills us with voyeuristic guilt”
Sometimes it is necessary to read other reviews prior to writing one. The fear of accidental plagiarism is overruled by the desire to...
Read MoreLondon Film Festival Review: Last Flag Flying
Last Flag Flying is the latest Richard Linklater film, and it’s a quasi-sequel to Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail (1973). Originally the plan...
Read MoreReview: Blade Runner 2049 – “Bold, restless and resolute“
As someone who likes to think they invented the #GayForGosling movement, I was sold on ‘Blade Runner 2049’ from the get go. Throw in Denis...
Read MoreLondon Film Festival Review: Breathe – “A wonderful directorial debut from the multi-talented Andy Serkis”
It may seem strange or even counterintuitive for an artist who has achieved global fame thanks to his revolutionary, technology-advancing...
Read MoreLondon Film Festival Review: Stronger – “One man’s experience of triumph over adversity”
Boston. Home of a much-mimicked accent, the ducks, major sports teams and the place where everybody knows your name. It is a city that has...
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