Film Review – Honey Boy (2019)
Shia LaBeouf’s personal problems have been many and well documented. From drink and drugs related incidents to wearing a paper...
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 …..
Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn on the “everyday poetry” of Ordinary Love
Back in 2012, directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn brought the Belfast punk scene gloriously to life with the...
Film Review – The Party’s Just Beginning (2018)
Since launching herself on the small screen in Doctor Who, Karen Gillan has become something of a chameleon on the...
Film Review – The Two Popes (2019)
Buddy movies. Male or female, cops or cowboys, teenagers or OAPs, the essence of the formula is nearly always the...
Actors Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin on the demands of making The Nightingale
Aisling Franciosi is modestly dismissive about one of her most arduous moments while shooting Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, the uncompromising...
Film Review – Blue Story (2019)
Introductions first. For the uninitiated (including this reviewer) meet Rapman, aka Andrew Onwubolu, the British rapper, music producer, writer and...
Writer/director Mirrah Foulkes on her “genre mash-up”, Judy And Punch
In a cinematic week dominated by Frozen II, coming up on the sidelines is a film from Down Under that...
Film review – Le Mans 66 (2019)
It was supposed to be called Ford Vs Ferrari – and, in the States, it is. But, for some reason,...
Director Scott Z Burns and Daniel J Jones on bringing the true story of The Report to the screen
It feels like Adam Driver Week at the cinema. Getting perhaps the most attention is Marriage Story, which many expect...
Little Monsters director Abe Forsythe on Lupita Nyong’o, ukuleles – and Taylor Swift
Australian director Abe Forsythe didn’t set out to make a horror movie. Or a zom-com. But that’s how Little Monsters,...
Film Review – Midway (2019)
A turning point in the fight for control of the Pacific during World War II, the Battle Of Midway took...
Film Review – Luce (2019)
Cast your mind back to when you were at school. There was always at least one person in the class...
The “family” on making Sorry We Missed You
In a career spanning over 50 years, British director Ken Loach has always resisted the call of Hollywood and its...
Director Paul Downs Colaizzo and star Jillian Bell: Brittany Runs A Marathon is more than a weight loss movie
The audience favourite at this year’s Sundance brings its heart warming humour to British audiences this week as Brittany Runs...