Netflix Review – Hold The Dark (2018)
After just two indie films, Blue Ruin and cult favourite Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s name is synonymous with nerve-shredding horror...
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 Wife (2018)
“Have you met the wife?” A phrase full of outdated attitudes yet used more frequently than we’d like to believe. ...
Film Review – The Little Stranger (2018)
Three years ago, director Lenny Abrahamson’s star was on the ascendancy. With one indie success under his belt, thanks to...
Film Review – The Rider (2017)
The Old West – at least, the one we know from the westerns that proliferated in the 1950s and 60s...
Film Review – Puzzle (2018)
Puzzle opened this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival and stars one of Scotland’s – nay, Glasgow’s – finest. Kelly Macdonald. ...
The Miseducation Of Cameron Post director Desiree Akhavan on hustling and a framed Post-It note
I’m not so much talking to Desiree Akhavan as in her presence. Not that she’s formidable – quite the contrary...
Director Bart Layton on telling the true story of American Animals
It’s a grandiose setting for an interview, something that’s not lost on American Animals director Bart Layton (pictured above left,...
Yardie’s Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson on working with Idris Elba
When Idris Elba made his debut as a producer with Beasts Of No Nation, it caused a flurry. He was...
Film Review – The Happytime Murders (2018)
Sometimes it’s all too easy to understand how a movie gets green lit. The phrase “an adult Muppet movie” must...
Film Review – Cold War (2018)
After the critical acclaim and awards showered on Ida (2013), the next offering from Polish-born director, Pawel Pawlikowski was always...
Film Review – The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Sometimes Hollywood just doesn’t know what to do with talent, even when the answer is right under its immaculately powdered...
Film Review – The Children Act (2017)
Ian McEwan is having something of a moment. It’s just three months since On Chesil Beach arrived in cinemas: as...
Making indie movies and moving between films and the theatre: The Children Act director, Richard Eyre
It’s an enviable portfolio. Artistic director of the National Theatre, a TV BAFTA, an Oscar winning film ….. the list...
Heathers at 30: Michael Lehmann and Lisanne Falk on a cult movie for today
Greetings and salutations! Heathers (1988) is back. And at the ripe old age of 30 – a birthday some of...