Film Review – Emergency (2022)
It all starts out so well for best friends Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) and Sean (R J Cyler). It’s the...
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 – Vortex (2021)
It’s a generic-sounding title – not what you’d expect from a director with a reputation for courting controversy – but...
Film Review – The Drover’s Wife: The Legend Of Molly Johnson (2021)
Leah Purcell’s fascination with The Drover’s Wife: The Legend Of Molly Johnson goes all the way back to her childhood,...
Film Review – Happening (2021)
Laws change and social attitudes shift but some issues never lose their inherent controversy. For many, abortion comes top of...
Netflix Review – Choose Or Die (2022)
It all started with Pac Man. The video game equivalent of The Very Hungry Caterpillar launched in the 80s and...
Film Review – Operation Mincemeat (2021)
It’s not exactly the best of movie titles, but it is the story of one of the most audacious –...
Film Review – Benedetta (2021)
Paul Verhoeven. A name that comes complete with certain assumptions – think Basic Instinct and the even more notorious Showgirls....
Film Review – All The Old Knives (2022)
We're into spy season. As we immerse ourselves in Slow Horses, along comes All The Old Knives, and both have...
Interview: The Bad Guys director Pierre Perifel on “Reservoir Dogs for kids”
They’re Mr Wolf, Mr Snake, Mr Shark, Mr Piranha and Ms Tarantula, they’re known as The Bad Guys – and...
Film Review – One Of These Days (2020)
Endurance competitions reek of desperation. Perhaps it’s the memory of the Depression dance marathon at the centre of 1969’s They...
Interview: Director Lauren Hadaway on why The Novice isn’t a sports movie
It’s a film about obsession, the compulsion to win – and, as director Lauren Hadaway agrees, full of blood sweat...
Film Review – The Bad Guys (2022)
Animation is on a high – the past months have treated us to the colour of Encanto, the frantic energy...
Interview: Director Harry Wootliff on the “unromantic” True Things
British director Harry Wootliff is no stranger to the turbulence of love on the big screen. After making a big...
Film Review – True Things (2021)
Director Harry Wootliff returns to cinemas this week with her second feature. Her first, Only You, with its examination of a whirlwind relationship...