Film Review – Dumb Money (2023)
You can hear the contempt in the words. “Dumb money”. It’s what the big boys in finance call individual investors,...
Freda Cooper
Freda is a Senior Writer at The People's Movies.
A lifelong movie fan and a film critic for over ten years, Freda’s natural habitat is the darkened rooms frequented by fellow cineastes. She can also be found asking questions of some of the biggest names in the business – from Cate Blanchett to Daniel Craig or Mike Leigh to Pete Docter – or crafting reviews for a number of sites and publications, including The People’s Movies. And listeners to BBC Local Radio can catch her views on the latest releases. She always – and probably always will – cite The Third Man as her favourite film of all time. Her top ten? That’s a moveable feast …..
Film Review – Cassandro (2023)
At first sight, you’d never take Saul (Gael Garcia Bernal) for a wrestler. There’s none of the bulk that you...
Film Review – Past Lives (2023)
The voices at the start of Celine Song’s delicate Past Lives don’t have faces. They could be us. They’re fascinated...
Interview: Past Lives director Celine Song – “In-Yun is an enriching concept”
There’s four key players in Celine Song’s debut film, Past Lives. Its three actors – Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and...
Film Review – Cobweb (2023)
Jump scares, strange noises, creepy old houses, unbearable suspense …. just some of the reasons why horror films never go...
Film Review – Passages (2023)
Warmth and beautiful observation have characterized Ira Sachs’ best films – Love Is Strange and Little Men in particular –...
Film Review – Afire (2023)
Right from the opening moments of Christian Petzold’s Afire, things start to go wrong. The car taking friends Leon (Thomas...
Film Review – The Blackening (2022)
While comedy is an integral part of his portfolio, it’s something Jordan Peele has kept almost completely under wraps as...
Film Review – Haunted Mansion (2023)
For anybody raised on Disney movies – in other words, most of us – the opening combination of the Magic...
Film Review – Joy Ride (2023)
It was a film that broke down barriers. A romcom with an ensemble cast following the glamorous lives of the...
Film Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Are we living in a Golden Age of animation? Guillermo del Toro’s stop motion masterpiece, Pinocchio, Dreamworks’ Puss In Boots:...
Sundance London 2023 Review – You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
It’s ten years since Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus combined their talents for Enough Said, a mature rom-com that captured...
Sundance London 2023 review – Past Lives (2023)
The voices at the start of Celine Song’s delicate Past Lives don’t have faces. They could be us. They’re fascinated...
Sundance London 2023 review – Talk To Me (2022)
We’ve probably all done it. Got together with some friends to dabble in the supernatural, courtesy of a Ouija board...