Film Review – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)
It feels like a Judy Blume spring. Hard on the heels of the Netflix documentary about the much-loved American author...
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Film Review – Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)
Here’s the dilemma. While cinemas are still in post-COVID recovery mode, one particular age group is taking its time to...
Film Review – The Laureate (2021)
The life of a poet may not sound like prime material for a film and yet there have been many...
Film Review – Pamfir (2023)
On the border of Romania, in the eastern Carpathian mountains sits the region of Bukovina. This is the setting of...
Film Review – Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.3 (2023)
There's a lot to unpack with the third instalment in the hugely successful Guardians of the Galaxy series - in...
Film Review – Rodeo (2022)
“Asphalt pirates”. It’s director Lola Quivoron’s affectionate name for the young people at the centre of her debut feature, Rodeo,...
Film Review – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)
Based on Rachel Joyce’s best-selling book of the same name, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a film about...
Film Review – Missing (2023)
Over the last few years, as our relationships with technology get bigger and more obsessive, it was inevitable that Hollywood...
Film Review -Sick Of Myself (2022)
In 2017, Norwegian film director Kristoffer Borgli released his debut feature film DRIB. Based on the story of a failed,...
Film Review – The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (2023)
The works of Alexandre Dumas have been adapted for the big and small screen for decades now and that shows...
Film Review – Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Wow, it feels like a long, long time since we had a run-in with the Book of the Dead, doesn't...
Film Review – Renfield (2023)
It feels like a long time since we had a really good vampire film, doesn’t it? Many, of course, will...
Film Review – Suzume (2023)
Makoto Shinkai returns with another visual delight that entices the senses. His movies often deal with subjects such as nature,...
Film Review – Assassin Club (2023)
Assassin Club is so incomprehensible it’s a wonder it got a cinema release. It manages to be both convoluted and...