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Review: Hail Satan? – “A side-splitting, painfully prescient and compassionate film”

Posted by on Jul 26, 2019 in All, documentary, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Directed by Penny Lane (The Pain of Others, Nuts!) Hail Satan? is a documentary about the creation, growth and battles of a group who...

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Review: The Dead Don’t Die – “Awkwardly charming and effortlessly cool”

Posted by on Jul 11, 2019 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, horror, indie, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch (Paterson), The Dead Don’t Die stars Bill Murray (Lost in Translation), Adam Driver (Star Wars: The...

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“Hang on lads…” LFF checks out the ultimate The Italian Job book

Posted by on Jul 1, 2019 in action, All, Books, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Fifty years after cinema-goers first saw Michael Caine and his crew stage a daring getaway in three red, white and blue Mini Coopers,...

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Review: Toy Story 4 – “Funny and excitingly weird”

Posted by on Jun 21, 2019 in action, All, animated, comedy, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

The gang of sentient playthings that everyone loves are back after a nine-year hiatus that has still not been long enough to get over the...

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Review: Child’s Play – “Mark Hamill is brilliant”

Posted by on Jun 20, 2019 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

The new take on 80s slasher Child’s Play is directed by Norwegian Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) from a script written by Tyler Burton Smith...

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Little Did You Know: LFF cracks open actor, screenwriter and film critic David McGillivray’s autobiography

Posted by on Jun 2, 2019 in All, biopic, Books, comedy, drama, Film, indie, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Referred to variously as “the Truffaut of smut” and “a prolific hack writer”, David McGillivray started out reviewing movies for the BFI...

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Review: Ma – “Shocks and surprises and always catches you off-guard”

Posted by on May 31, 2019 in All, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Written by Scotty Landes (Workaholics) and directed by Tate Taylor (Winter’s Bone), Ma stars Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water),...

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Review – Godzilla: King of the Monsters – “Absolutely nails the creature design”

Posted by on May 30, 2019 in action, All, Film, Headline, sci-fi, thriller, Trailers | 0 comments

Godzilla: King of the Monsters follows on from Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island, is written and directed by Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r...

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Review: Starfish – “An apocalypse the likes of which you have never seen before”

Posted by on May 27, 2019 in All, drama, Film, Headline, horror, indie, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

Written and directed by A.T. White – who is also credited with the score, creature design and editing – Starfish stars...

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Review: Aladdin – “Slick and charming dancing-in-your-seat and impossible-not-to-sing-a-long-to romantic action-adventure”

Posted by on May 23, 2019 in action, All, comedy, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, musical, Reviews, romance, thriller | 0 comments

A live-action update of the 1992 animated Disney classic, the new Aladdin is written by John August (Go), directed by Guy Ritchie (Snatch)...

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