Interview: Director Michel Hazanavicius on the sound of silence in The Most Precious Of Cargoes
Silence has become his trademark. Back in 2011, Michel Hazanavicius achieved international fame with his Oscar winning silent movie The...
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 …..
The Most Precious Of Cargoes Review
Animation’s golden age continues. After the tightest of races for the Oscar, one that culminated in the trophy going to...
Mr Burton Review
“I owe him everything.” The words on the screen at the end of Marc Evans’s Mr Burton belong to actor...
Interviews: Director Jed Hart and actor Lyndsey Marshal on neighbours from hell in “Restless”
To celebrate the release of Restless in UK cinemas this week, we had the pleasure of chatting to one of...
Interview: Jason Flemyng and Chidi Ajufo on going into action with Jason Statham in “A Working Man”
Think action movies and you inevitably think Jason Statham. Whether he’s meting out justice to bad guys, taking on a...
Hot Milk Review (BFI Flare 2025)
It’s one of, dare we say it, the hottest tickets at this year’s BFI Flare. Hot Milk arrives full of...
A Working Man Review
A Working Man is close to what to expect from a Statham movie. The director may change, the cast may...
On Falling Review
It’s a job done by thousands of people, but we never think about it. And that’s because we never see...
Day Of The Fight Review
“They don’t make ‘em like that any more.” So they say, but in his directorial debut, Day Of The Fight,...
Interview: Day Of The Fight director Jack Huston on tempting Joe Pesci out of retirement
Jack Huston wears his heart on his sleeve. Films are “my first love, so deeply engrained in my heart that...
Interview: Guns Of Redemption’s Casper Van Dien on Johnny Rico working with The Lawnmower Man
Casper Van Dien can’t escape his breakout role. Best known as Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 cult classic Starship...
Interview: On Falling director Laura Carreira and her ‘partner piece’ for a Ken Loach classic
For her debut feature, director Laura Carreira takes us into a world that we probably never think about – and...
September Says Review
It’s a title with a powerful sense of what’s to come – and it reeks of menace. That reference to...
Cottontail Review
It’s almost too easy to assume that English and Japanese culture have next to nothing in common. It made fertile...