Review: American Star – “Anchored by a strong performance”
Ian McShane is an actor with charisma to spare, as well as being the author of arguably the most accurate summary of Game of Thrones,...
Read MoreMatthew Perry – The Best Friend.
Well, this is the one where we grieve. I’m not going to spend much (any) time editing this, I just want to get it out. “I don’t believe...
Read MoreReview: Outpost – “I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie.”
I enjoyed this sparky little horror movie. It is compact (less than 90 minutes) and fun. But… I’m a horror fan and my enjoyment was on the...
Read MoreReview: Once Upon a Time in Uganda – “The delight and dedication are obvious and contagious”
“The Beatles of exploding heads.” A cursory look at the headlines about Uganda highlights tragedy, violence, ecocide, and the fact...
Read MoreReview: Love Life – “The kind of special movie that reminds us what cinema can do”
Love Life is a Japanese relationship drama that incorporates humour, melodrama and a sense of the unpredictability and unknowability that...
Read MoreReview: Prisoner’s Daughter – “One of the best films I’ve seen so far this year”
Violence. A difficult and relevant topic. Not just physical violence. We’ve only really begun to understand in the last century the...
Read MoreReview: Maggie Moore[s] – “Highly recommended”
Maggie Moore[s] is a more melancholy Fargo. At the outset, we’re told that ‘Some of this actually happened…’ Fargo similarly opens with a...
Read MoreReview: Beast – “Fun, entertaining, re-watchable, occasionally silly”
Idris Elba is a star. He’s a fantastic actor, he’s so ludicrously handsome that he could un-curdle milk from 200 paces, and he’s so...
Read MoreReview: Summer In The Shade – “You’ll find yourself drawn into the story like a great page-turner of a novel.”
It seems like an increasingly shining age for female filmmakers, and it couldn’t happen soon enough. Internationally, the likes of...
Read MoreReview – The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52 – “Well-told, well-made, and it’s uplifting”
Nature documentaries have never shied away from showing upsetting things, but these days, it feels riskier to sit down and watch one. They...
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