Film Review – Amulet (2020)
The latest familiar face from the small and big screen to venture behind the camera, Romola Garai has chosen a...
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 …..
Review – Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul (2022 Sundance Film Festival)
Regina Hall returns to comedy duties for her second film at this year’s Sundance. Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul...
Review – God’s Country (2022 Sundance Film Festival)
It’s a slow burn, one that takes place over the course of seven short days in the coldest of landscapes,...
Film Review – Parallel Mothers (2021)
An Almodóvar film is always an event. Whether it’s because of the acting, the vibrant colours, the sheer spirit of...
Review – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (2022 Sundance Film Festival)
It became a rock legend. The story from the 60s that involved Mick Jagger, his then girlfriend Marianne Faithfull and...
Review – Breaking (2022 Sundance Film Festival)
$892 was all the Department of Veterans Affairs owed Brian Brown-Easley. It was his disability payment and the smallest of...
Review – Master (2022 Sundance Film Festival)
Horror knows few, if any, boundaries. The genre doesn’t just deliver thrills and scares: it brings social commentary, satire, as...
Review – Living (2022)
One of the first titles out of the block at this year’s Sundance looks as British as you can get....
Film Review – Nightmare Alley (2021)
It's hard to believe, but the last time we saw a Guillermo del Toro directed film was 2017 – what...
Matt Fifer and Sheldon D Brown on the “deeply personal” Cicada
“Based on true events”. Such a familiar opening line, one that’s already perilously close to becoming a cliché but some...
Film Review – Cicada (2020)
It can only take a second to trigger a memory. A sound, a smell – and they can sneak up...
Film Review – Memoria (2021)
Back in 2010, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul was the toast of Cannes, with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past...
Film Review – Munich: The Edge Of War (2021)
Think World War II and you inevitably think of Winston Churchill – the speeches, the fat cigar and, eventually, that...
Film Review – Boiling Point (2021)
It’s a high pressure working environment – we’ll avoid the obvious puns – but, once you’ve seen Philip Barantini’s Boiling...