“Everyone grieves differently”… Thunder Road is a heartfelt, moving, surprisingly funny character study of police officer, Jim Arnaud (played by writer and director Jim Cummings), grieving the loss of his mother and fighting for the…
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Film Review – The Lost City Of Z (2017)
Charlie Hunnam stars as real-life British explorer Percy Fawcett in this enjoyable yet unsettling tale of adventure and obsession. Based on the writings of author David Grann (in his book of the same name) and…
Film Review – Elle (2016)
Isabelle Huppert is utterly electrifying in Paul Verhoeven’s alluring rape-revenge thriller based on source material by Philippe Dijan. Elle is a film that aims to shock and challenge its audience; this is made crystal clear…
Film Review – Toni Erdmann (2017)
German filmmaker Maren Ade’s coming-of-age comedy Toni Erdmann is a hilarious and immensely moving portrayal of an idiosyncratic father and daughter relationship. Toni Erdmann opens with a parcel being delivered to a suburban house. The…
Revisiting Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990)
With Martin Scorsese’s new religious epic Silence in cinemas nationwide this January, the BFI in association with Warner Bros Pictures are bringing back one of his most beloved works to our screens, the sprawling mobster…
Blu-ray Review – Rintaro’s Metropolis
With Rintaro’s towering animated epic, Metropolis (2001), getting a long-awaited Blu-Ray release in the UK, there is no better time to revisit this masterful sci-fi anime. Metropolis tells the story of private detective Ban, and…
21 of the Very Best Films on Netflix (UK)
Christmas is a fantastic time of the year for watching films, you’ve even got that strange period leading up to the New Year where nobody has a clue what they should be doing, so why…
Revisiting the Alluring Wonder of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man
With Jim Jarmusch’s new film Paterson being released this month, what better time to revisit his mysterious and undeniably alluring neo-Western masterpiece, Dead Man. Premiered at Cannes in 1995, the film opened to mixed reviews…
Revisiting a Gruesome and Powerful Masterpiece in The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and her Lover (1989)
Plagued by censorship disputes, Peter Greenaway’s visceral and incendiary revenge drama still has the power to astonish over 25 years after its release. The eponymous ‘Cook’ is the charming French chef, Richard (Richard Bohringer), the…
Film Review – Arrival (2016)
Denis Villeneuve’s follow up to Sicario (2015) is a contemporary sci-fi masterpiece that skilfully places raw human emotion at the heart of its mind-bending narrative. The outer skin of Arrival seems relatively straightforward, 12 giant…
DVD Review – Rams (2015)
With a limited UK release in February this year, this little-known Icelandic tragicomedy about sheep is quirkily charming and heart breaking in equal measure. Rams (original title, Hrútar) opens with two brothers competing in…
Film Review – X-Men Apocalypse (2016)
By use of pastiche and parody, Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey amusingly manages to sum up this film when discussing ‘Return of the Jedi’ with her friends: “The third one’s always the worst”. X-Men Apocalypse is…
Review – It Happened One Night (1934)
This definitive screwball comedy still manages to charm and delight the coldest of hearts, 80 long years after its release. Generally considered the very first screwball comedy, the landmark It Happened One Night details the…
Blu-Ray Review – Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
Voted the eighth best film ever made in the Sight & Sound 2012 poll, and the best documentary ever in a subsequent poll in 2014, Dzigia Vertov’s experimental 1929 silent documentary film is as powerful…
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