Sundance London 2023 review – Passages (2023)
Warmth and beautiful observation have characterized Ira Sachs’ best films – Love Is Strange and Little Men in particular –...
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 …..
Sundance London 2023 review – Fairyland (2023)
For his feature debut, director/writer Andrew Durham has taken us to somewhere we know, or at least feel we do...
Film Review – The Damned Don’t Cry (2022)
After his critically acclaimed first feature, 2019’s Lynn + Lucy, British-Moroccan director Fyzal Boulifa has moved to his parents’ home...
Film Review – Mother And Son (2022)
It’s a new start. Rose and her two young sons, Jean and Ernest, have travelled from the Ivory Coast to...
Film Review – Asteroid City (2023)
“I don’t understand the play," says a bewildered actor, played by Jason Schwartzman, to its director, Adrien Brody. “It doesn’t...
Film Review – Extraction 2 (2023)
With over 99 million viewers in its first four weeks on Netflix, 2020’s Extraction was a near-overnight sensation, the most-watched...
Film Review – Chevalier (2022)
It’s one of the most electric opening sequences of the year. The prodigiously talented Mozart is happily dazzling an audience...
Interview: Director Tina Satter – “Reality is stranger than fiction”
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday afternoon in June 2017, 25 year old Reality Winner arrived at her Georgia home. Seconds...
Film Review – Master Gardener (2022)
Paul Schrader hasn’t said as much, but his latest film as director/writer has all the trappings of a loose trilogy....
Film Review – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)
It feels like a Judy Blume spring. Hard on the heels of the Netflix documentary about the much-loved American author...
Film Review – Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)
Here’s the dilemma. While cinemas are still in post-COVID recovery mode, one particular age group is taking its time to...
Film Review – Rodeo (2022)
“Asphalt pirates”. It’s director Lola Quivoron’s affectionate name for the young people at the centre of her debut feature, Rodeo,...
Film Review – Ghosted (2023)
Anybody would think Chris Evans and Ana de Armas had ambitions to be the latest in a long line of...
Interview: Renfield’s Chris McKay on Nic Cage’s prosthetics – and the chances of a Lego Dracula movie
He made his name with the hilarious animated antics of The Lego Batman Movie, but now director Chris McKay has...