Ed Film Fest At Home Review – The Traitor (2019)
Corleone. A name associated with one thing and one thing only. In The Godfather, it was the family name, taken...
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 …..
Ed Film Fest At Home Review – A White, White Day (2019)
The first five minutes of Hlynur Palmason’s A White, White Day introduce a trio that will become familiar as the...
Digital Review – The Girl With A Bracelet (2019)
It’s an unremarkable scene. A family on the beach in the sunshine. But two police officers change all that. They...
Ed Film Fest At Home Review – Saint Frances (2019)
Who would you trust to look after your children? Cinema’s nannies come in many guises, from the magical Mary Poppins...
Fanny Lye Deliver’d writer/director Thomas Clay on making his “Puritan western”
Thomas Clay’s Fanny Lye Deliver’d has turned out to be more of a personal project than he ever could have...
Ed Film Fest At Home Review – Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)
Thomas Clay’s Fanny Lye Deliver’d was shot back in 2016 and when a film is a long time coming, it...
Digital Review – The Spy (2019)
During the 1930s and throughout the Second World War, Norwegian-born Sonja Wigert established herself as one of Scandinavia’s most famous...
Digital Review – Ride Like A Girl (2019)
Next weekend, all things being equal, sees one of the two biggest events in the UK horse racing calendar. Whether...
Resistance director Jonathan Jakubowicz on the “unknown story” of Marcel Marceau
It’s an indelible stain on the 20th century, yet the Holocaust continues to reveal hitherto undiscovered stories, ones that inspire...
Digital Review – On A Magical Night (2019)
It sounds like the title for a romantic comedy, one glowing with the joys of amour, but Christophe Honore’s On...
Digital Review – Hooking Up (2020)
It’s not a great title. One so generic it could have been chosen by committee. And it doesn’t bode well...
Simon Bird and Monica Dolan on Days Of The Bagnold Summer – Everybody’s Coming Of Age Film
They’re both familiar faces from TV comedy. Simon Bird was The Inbetweeners’ awkward and put-upon Will, while one of Monica...
Digital Review – Guest Of Honour (2019)
He’s the one visitor you don’t want if you run a food establishment, the spectre at the feast, as it...
To The Stars’ Kara Hayward And Liana Liberato On Going Back To The Sixties
Kara Hayward made her screen debut at the age of 12 in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. Liana Liberato has two...