Review: Hail Satan? – “A side-splitting, painfully prescient and compassionate film”
Directed by Penny Lane (The Pain of Others, Nuts!) Hail Satan? is a documentary about the creation, growth and battles of a group who...
Read MoreReview: The Dead Don’t Die – “Awkwardly charming and effortlessly cool”
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch (Paterson), The Dead Don’t Die stars Bill Murray (Lost in Translation), Adam Driver (Star Wars: The...
Read More“Hang on lads…” LFF checks out the ultimate The Italian Job book
Fifty years after cinema-goers first saw Michael Caine and his crew stage a daring getaway in three red, white and blue Mini Coopers,...
Read MoreReview: Toy Story 4 – “Funny and excitingly weird”
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...
Read MoreReview: Child’s Play – “Mark Hamill is brilliant”
The new take on 80s slasher Child’s Play is directed by Norwegian Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) from a script written by Tyler Burton Smith...
Read MoreLittle Did You Know: LFF cracks open actor, screenwriter and film critic David McGillivray’s autobiography
Referred to variously as “the Truffaut of smut” and “a prolific hack writer”, David McGillivray started out reviewing movies for the BFI...
Read MoreReview: Ma – “Shocks and surprises and always catches you off-guard”
Written by Scotty Landes (Workaholics) and directed by Tate Taylor (Winter’s Bone), Ma stars Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water),...
Read MoreReview – Godzilla: King of the Monsters – “Absolutely nails the creature design”
Godzilla: King of the Monsters follows on from Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island, is written and directed by Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r...
Read MoreReview: Starfish – “An apocalypse the likes of which you have never seen before”
Written and directed by A.T. White – who is also credited with the score, creature design and editing – Starfish stars...
Read MoreReview: Aladdin – “Slick and charming dancing-in-your-seat and impossible-not-to-sing-a-long-to romantic action-adventure”
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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