Laila (1929)
2019-03-22
Fate and conscience are prominent themes in the first half of writer and director George Schnéevoigt’s silent movie adaptation ofContinue Reading
Fleabag (BBC 2016 – …) Series Two Episode One
2019-03-12
When Fleabag series one first aired back in 2016 no one could have imagined the heights it would reach. FromContinue Reading
What They Had (2019)
2019-03-03
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was moving” – except the mousyContinue Reading
Beats (2019)
2019-03-03
It would be easy and far too reductive to simply compare Beats to Human Traffic, another chemical fuelled bildungsroman setContinue Reading
Cold Pursuit (2019)
2019-03-03
Liam Neeson’s latest vehicle is a car crash. At the beginning, a nothing-to-see-here bumper scrape. By the end, a WackyContinue Reading
The White Crow (2019)
2019-03-01
Rudolph Nureyev was brought up in the grim Soviet town of Ufa. A chance outing to the opera at ageContinue Reading
Eighth Grade (2019)
2019-02-27
“I never get the feeling of after the rollercoaster.” Eighth Grade is a film that I wish I’d had whenContinue Reading
Under the Silver Lake (2019)
2019-02-26
Under the Silver Lake feels like a machine that could run beautifully and smoothly if it wasn’t for the factContinue Reading
Mid90s (2018)
2019-02-25
I enjoyed this slice-of-working-class-California-life in the 90s from Jonah Hill. It’s a coming of age story about 13 year-old StevieContinue Reading
Let Me Fall (2018)
2019-02-25
Let Me Fall, Baldvin Zophoniasson’s third feature, is aptly named, as Baldvin Z chooses to portray addiction in a wayContinue Reading
Connect (2019)
2019-02-24
Given the subject matter in this film and its intended message, I feel that I have to be honest aboutContinue Reading
Hotel Mumbai (2018)
2019-02-24
A high-impact retelling of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2008 by filmmaker Anthony Maras. Hotel Mumbai is understandably goryContinue Reading
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
2019-02-16
“How long has this been going on?”, asks Joseph Rivers (Colman Domingo) after learning that his unmarried daughter Tish (KiKiContinue Reading
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
2019-02-04
After a succession of duds – none more wince-inducing than The Happytime Murders – if you had offered me aContinue Reading