Film Review – Passing (2021)
After a much-applauded performance in Christine, one of the highlights of Sundance 2016, Rebecca Hall returns to the scene of...
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 – The Colour Room (2021)
Initially, there’s little about The Colour Room to catch the eye. The story of 1920’s ceramic artist, Clarice Cliff, who...
Film Review – The Card Counter (2021)
He’s the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who's directed nearly 30 films but chances are Paul Schrader always be most associated...
Actor Michael Greyeyes on why he’s still haunted by his Wild Indian character
That all-too-familiar sound of an email notification came only five minutes into my conversation with Michael Greyeyes. What I didn’t...
Film Review – Antlers (2021)
Remember Antlers? The Guillermo del Toro-produced horror disappeared down the pandemic black hole of last year after losing its original...
Digital Review – Best Sellers (2021)
When an actor with a long and distinguished career decides to walk away from the cameras for the last time,...
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – Wild Indian (2021)
“Some time ago, there was an Objiwe man who got sick and wandered West ….” Initially, there seems to be...
BFI London Film Festival 2021 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...
BFI London Film Festival Review – The French Dispatch (2021)
Welcome back to the wonderful world of Wes – Anderson, that is. We’d hoped to return there last year, when...
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – True Things
Harry Wootliff returns to the LFF with her second feature. Her first, Only You, with its examination of a whirlwind relationship...
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)
Few business sectors have come through the past 18 months unscathed, but the film industry has had a particularly torrid...
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – Last Night In Soho (2021)
If you can remember the Sixties, you were never there. So they say. Although, once you see what’s hidden behind...
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – The Souvenir Part II
At the time Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir was released in 2019, we already knew a second half of the story...
Film Review – Voyagers (2021)
The world is increasingly inhospitable and the human race faces extinction if it can’t find a new planet for its...