Film Review – The White Crow (2018)
As a director, Ralph Fiennes has classical tastes. His debut behind the camera was in 2011 with Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, followed...
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 – Girl (2018)
It’s an idyllic moment in the glowing light of morning. A blonde teenage girl is woken up by a little...
Film Review – What Men Want (2019)
We’ve already had gender-swapped remakes of Ghostbusters and Ocean’s 11 – one way at least of making more female-led films...
Netflix review – Triple Frontier (2019)
It was a debut you could only dream about. Margin Call (2011), J C Chandor’s first feature as writer and...
Film Review – Everybody Knows (2019)
It’s not often that a film in a foreign language gets a decent distribution in cinemas – not extensive, perhaps,...
The Kindergarten Teacher director Sara Colangelo on a problem character
In years to come, writer/director Sara Colangelo could look back at The Kindergarten Teacher and see it as something of...
Film Review – Captain Marvel (2019)
Believe the hype, for the hype is true. With one small exception. It may have been trumpeted as Marvel’s first...
Film Review – The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Hands up if your favourite teacher in the movies is one of the following. The inspirational John Keating (Robin Williams)...
Serenity director Steven Knight on being disruptive – and Matthew McConaughey’s crush
Steven Knight’s Serenity is easily one of the most discussed films of 2019 so far. It’s attracted some colourful descriptions,...
Film Review – Hannah (2018)
It’s been a long and extremely varied career. So far. From her first appearances in the sixties in the likes...
Netflix review – The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind (2019)
Necessity is the mother of invention – not that schoolboy William in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s impressive directorial debut, The Boy Who...
Film review – Serenity (2019)
Winning an Oscar isn’t always everything it’s cracked up to be. For some actors it’s a ticket to the top,...
Netflix review – Isn’t It Romantic (2019)
Rom-coms seem to be back in vogue at the moment and Netflix is basking in their reflected glory. Last year...
On The Basis Of Sex director Mimi Leder on returning from “Movie Jail”
Director Mimi Leder is the first to admit that On The Basis Of Sex is a personal movie. Deeply so....