Film Review – One Fine Morning (2022)
Mia Hansen-Love’s Paris in One Fine Morning is smothered with apartment blocks, anonymous, faceless edifices but each with its own...
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 – Air (2023)
The basketball puns have already been done to death, such has been the initial response to Ben Affleck’s Air, and...
Film Review – The Night Of The 12th (2022)
It was a phrase that resounded around the UK – and further afield – at the end of March in...
BFI Flare 2023 Review – How To Tell A Secret (2022)
In October 2017, Shaun Dunne’s play, Rapids, made its debut at the Dublin Theatre Festival. His portrait of the lives...
BFI Flare 2023 Review – Jess Plus None (2023)
Weddings. Celebrations of love and commitment in the presence of family and friends. All about the people that matter to...
BFI Flare 2023 Review – Polarized (2023)
The collision of worlds – physical, cultural and everything in between – and the resulting fallout is a perennial favourite...
Film Review – The Beasts (2022)
It seems like an eternity ago – those pre-pandemic days when escaping city life for a rural idyll became reality...
BFI Flare 2023 Film Review – Big Boys (2023)
Jamie’s 14 years old. We never see him at school, but it’s not much of a stretch to imagine that...
Film Review – Rye Lane (2023)
The meet cute takes place in a loo. Not that they can see each other: that comes later when she...
Interview: The End Of Sex’s Sean Garrity and Jonas Chernick on “those awkward moments”
Director Sean Garrity and writer/actor Jonas Chernick have made have been working together for over 20 years, with around 10...
Review – The End Of Sex (2022)
It doesn’t seem so long ago that the question was “can men and women be friends without sex getting in...
Film Review – Creed III (2023)
It is, in case you hadn't noticed, The Year Of Jonathan Majors. So far, anyway. After building an impressive resume...
Film Review – The Inspection (2022)
Elegance Bratton’s feature directorial debut has been something of a festival circuit darling, gathering followers at Toronto, New York and...
Film Review – Women Talking (2022)
It’s an understated, almost benign title for a film. One that conceals acts of extreme violence and monumental, life changing...