Film Review – Peter Rabbit 2 (2021)
For once – and apologies to The Boomtown Rats – we do like Mondays. This Monday in particular, and we...
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 …..
Director Darren Bousman and stars Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols on Spiral: From The Book Of Saw
Fresh out of the blocks for cinema re-openings in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday, 17 May (Northern Ireland movie...
Film Review – The Secrets We Keep (2020)
The images created of small town America in the 1950s, where seemingly everybody had a fridge and large family car,...
Film Review – End Of Sentence (2019)
Unnerving characters have been John Hawkes’ stock in trade, from his shifty Oscar nominated turn in Winter’s Bone (2010) to...
Here Are The Young Men writer/director Eion Macken on re-visiting his teenage years
He’s a familiar face on our screens from a variety of films, as well as TV series including Merlin, but...
Film Review – The Artist’s Wife (2019)
Back in 2019, it looked highly likely that, at her seventh attempt, Glenn Close would at last get her hands...
Film Review – Beast Beast (2020)
Director/writer Danny Madden’s Beast Beast started small. In 2018, his short Krista premiered at SXSW, winning an award for Shirley...
Film Review – Here Are The Young Men (2020)
It's clear right from the start that Eoin Macken’s Here Are The Young Men isn’t going to end well. Matthew’s...
Film Review – Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
If the song’s name doesn’t ring a bell, the tune most definitely will. And that’s where the confusion starts in...
Writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine on Black Bear – and why he’s staying behind the camera
Writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine feels he’s turned a corner, one that’s represented by his latest offering, Black Bear. Until recently,...
Film Review – Black Bear (2020)
Spoiler-free reviews are essential for certain films – and we’re not just talking mega superhero ones. Nobody wants their viewing...
Review – Promising Young Woman (2020)
We’ve been waiting for this one. Just like a lot of other films, true, but Promising Young Woman had gathered...
Film Review – Palm Springs (2020)
It’s been done before. That time loop where we re-live the same day over and over again. Groundhog Day, anybody?...
Review – Antebellum (2020)
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s simplistic view of history opens Antebellum and, as it’s...