Film Review – Carmilla (2019)
It’s one of the greatest of all horror genres. Vampires. And it all started back in 1987 with Bram Stoker’s...
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Film Review – Body Of Water (2020)
2020 has been crap. We all know this, we are reminded every day and as time passes, it gets even...
Film Review – Saint Maud (2019)
Private palliative care nurse Maud brings her next-level piety into the atheistic abode of Amanda, a dying dance diva. Convinced...
BFI London Film Festival 2020 – Film Review – Kajillionaire (2020)
That family of South Korean grifters we met at the start of the year are still lodged in our brains. ...
Film Review – The Forty Year Old Version (2020)
OK, we get the reference in the title. But this is no mere play on words. It’s a title that...
Film Review – The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (2020)
Aaron Sorkin returns to the director’s chair in a week when Netflix dominates the release schedule. The Trial Of The...
Film Review – Monsoon (2019)
Henry Golding plays Kit, a 30-something returning to Saigon for the first time in many decades. He had lived there...
Film Review – 23 Walks (2020)
Take a look at that poster. Soft focus, later life love story, you can see all the grey market clichés...
Film Review – Rocks (2019)
Bursting onto the scene like a bolt from the blue, Sarah Gavron’s Rocks has well and truly arrived. After a...
Film Review – Bill & Ted Face The Music (2020)
“Dude!” Yes, finally, the most excellent and bogus adventure is back and, after decades of will-they, won’t-they, the Wyld Stallyns...
Film Review – Nocturnal (2019)
It’s the indie film maker’s location of choice – of late, at least. Seaside towns of the less than picturesque...
Film Review – Saint Maud (2019)
Private palliative care nurse Maud brings her next-level piety into the atheistic abode of Amanda, a dying dance diva. Convinced...
Film Review – The Painted Bird (2019)
A controversial 2019 Czech film with international cast that infamously made half of the audience in Venice leave the theatre,...
Film Review – The Roads Not Taken (2020)
This week sees Sally Potter's new film released in UK cinemas (still wonderful to write that after so many months...