Review: Passing -“Entertaining, horrifying and deceptively layered.”
Question. Have you lied to impress someone? Or maybe you’ve not corrected an inaccuracy, because you liked how it made you sound. We all...
Read MoreLFF 2021 Review: The Lost Daughter – “A thrillingly-weird ride with a resonant message”
A man held court outside the screening of The Lost Daughter, surrounded by a small group. “I just didn’t get it,” he exclaimed, “I thought...
Read MoreLFF 2021 Review: The French Dispatch – “Everything You Want from a Wes Anderson Movie, and Plenty That You Didn’t”
I’ll start with an anecdote about Wes Anderson, king of anecdotal cinema. I had been invited to a screening of The Life...
Read MoreReview: Dune – “It might just be the epic sci-fi saga we’ve been waiting for”
Timothée Chalamet’s pale and angular face looms large, camera tight on his furrowed brow, inner cogs turning, perfect curls twisted into a...
Read MoreReview: The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard – “Frenetic, Funny and Absolute Flippin’ Mayhem”
It’s not often you see a movie title sporting two apostrophes, but how else could Lionsgate market their sequel to the...
Read MoreReview: In The Heights – “A musical that’s very cinematic”
Are musicals back? The Greatest Showman made millions based on the thinnest of ideas sprouting while Hugh Jackman hosted the Oscars. La La...
Read MoreReview: A Quiet Place Part II – What the Big Screen was Built For
Summer 2021 will hopefully go down in history as the time when we felt safe to return to the movies. Going to the cinema will...
Read MoreHow Promising Young Woman Harnesses the Power of Silence
Within the eight nominees for Best Picture in the 2021 Oscar season, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal stands out (you might say, obviously)...
Read MoreReview: Sound of Metal – Must be Heard to be Believed
When describing what makes a good movie, how it uses sound usually falls lower down the list than visuals and performances. Millions in...
Read MoreLFF 2020 Review: Nomadland – “An awe-inspiring showcase of the American spirit”
Seconds before Nomadland began, I closed down an article I had been reading about a celebrity who had bought a house for $27million,...
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