BFI London Film Festival Review – Ammonite (2020)
Set amongst the chilly coastal landscapes of Lyme Regis, West Dorset, Ammonite is a gracefully-directed period piece of forbidden love....
Film Reviews
Helmut Newton: The Bad And The Beautiful
This intimate documentary of the late German fashion and celebrity photographer Helmut Newton is based on a selection of interviews...
BFI London Film Festival 2020 Review – Possessor (2020)
The Cronenberg family fingerprints are all over this one. Brandon Cronenberg’s second feature film Possessor boasts the sort of transgressive...
BFI London Film Festival Review – Nomadland (2020)
It’s been a meteoric rise for writer/director Chloe Zhao. Just two years ago, her sophomore feature, The Rider, marked her...
BFI London film Festival 2020 – Film Review – The Intruder (2020)
Horror resides deep within everyday occurrences in this elegant genre-spanning psychodrama from Argentina. Inés splits her work life between singing...
BFI London Film Festival Review – After Love (2020)
It’s a quiet domestic scene. A Muslim couple arrive home, she makes a cup of tea in their nicely equipped...
Netflix Review – Rebecca (2020)
It was Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood movie and won the Best Picture Oscar, the only film from his considerable output...
BFI London Film Festival Review – Another Round (2020)
It’s easily one of the most memorable images from this year’s London Film Festival. Mads Mikkelsen’s exuberant yet irony-tinged dance...
BFI London film Festival 2020 – Film Review – Rose: A Love Story (2020)
True love is not always enough to conquer all in Jennifer Sheridan's intelligent and affecting horror film. Rose and Sam...
Film Review – The Mortuary Collection (2019)
In recent times horror anthology films are rare, personal favourites such as Creepshow (1982) Creepshow 2 (1987) Trick r Treat...
BFI London Film Festival 2020 Review – One Night In Miami (2020)
It was hard not to compare Regina King’s One Night in Miami with a play I love: Picasso at the...
BFI London Film Festival Review – Supernova (2020)
A night sky slowly fills up with stars until there’s barely room for any more. One shines especially bright, brilliantly...
BFI London Film Festival 2020 Review – Herself (2020)
I think we can all agree that many of the processes and support systems in place in the UK and...
BFI London Film Festival 2020 Review – The Painter And The Thief (2020)
Benjamin Ree’s moving, intriguing and, at times, fairly baffling documentary turned heads at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Much of...