Review: Joy
It’s hard not to fall in love with Jennifer Lawrence. In a sea of hilariously honest jokes, tripping over her toes and Norma Rae...
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I have a confession. Sometimes I worry about the readers of these reviews, their gender and their agenda…so I tailor the words and...
Read MoreReview: High-Rise
Ten minutes in to High Rise, Tom Hiddleston nonchalantly pulls the rubberised facial muscles from the skeleton of a cadaver. This graphic...
Read More2015 London Film Festival Review: A Bigger Splash
Ralph Fiennes can really swivel those hips. The camera in A Bigger Splash is obsessed with the way Fiennes moves his (often naked,...
Read MoreReview: Miss You Already (Ignore the title – watch the film)
Beautiful cute furry kittens. Well I can hardly start this review with the word CANCER or you’ll never read on. But Miss You Already is a...
Read More5 reasons why the Fantastic Four Haters are WRONG
So…Fantastic Four (Fant4stic), it’s like totally rubbish right? Well, no actually. I really enjoyed this film that attempts to subvert the...
Read MoreReview: Ruth & Alex (5 Flights Up)
Discovering Morgan Freeman‘s presence in a film is like coming home. His smooth voice and low vowel sounds improve any project. Plus he...
Read MoreIf You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
What a dramatic title! I’ll lead in with a question: What films have blown your mind? It could be a classic movie from the 70s like Annie...
Read MoreReview: While We’re Young
In homage to a scene of Mexican hallucinogenic drug-taking while dressed in white that ends with hours of (literal) vomiting...
Read MoreThe Agony and the Ecstasy of Distressing Cinema
It has long been an industry joke that actors wanting to win awards should portray debilitating illness, down and dirty ugliness or a...
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