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Review: Passing -“Entertaining, horrifying and deceptively layered.”

Posted by on Nov 6, 2021 in All, Books, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

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...

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LFF 2021 Review: The Lost Daughter – “A thrillingly-weird ride with a resonant message”

Posted by on Oct 19, 2021 in All, Books, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

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...

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LFF 2021 Review: The French Dispatch – “Everything You Want from a Wes Anderson Movie, and Plenty That You Didn’t”

Posted by on Oct 14, 2021 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

  I’ll start with an anecdote about Wes Anderson, king of anecdotal cinema. I had been invited to a screening of The Life...

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Review: Dune – “It might just be the epic sci-fi saga we’ve been waiting for”

Posted by on Oct 7, 2021 in action, All, Books, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi, Theatre | 0 comments

Timothée Chalamet’s pale and angular face looms large, camera tight on his furrowed brow, inner cogs turning, perfect curls twisted into a...

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Review: The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard – “Frenetic, Funny and Absolute Flippin’ Mayhem”

Posted by on Jun 15, 2021 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

It’s not often you see a movie title sporting two apostrophes, but how else could Lionsgate market their sequel to the...

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Review: In The Heights – “A musical that’s very cinematic”

Posted by on Jun 7, 2021 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, musical, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

Are musicals back? The Greatest Showman made millions based on the thinnest of ideas sprouting while Hugh Jackman hosted the Oscars. La La...

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Review: A Quiet Place Part II – What the Big Screen was Built For

Posted by on May 18, 2021 in All, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

  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...

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How Promising Young Woman Harnesses the Power of Silence

Posted by on Apr 20, 2021 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, News, thriller | 0 comments

Within the eight nominees for Best Picture in the 2021 Oscar season, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal stands out (you might say, obviously)...

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Review: Sound of Metal – Must be Heard to be Believed

Posted by on Apr 7, 2021 in All, drama, Film, Headline, indie, Reviews | 0 comments

When describing what makes a good movie, how it uses sound usually falls lower down the list than visuals and performances. Millions in...

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LFF 2020 Review: Nomadland – “An awe-inspiring showcase of the American spirit”

Posted by on Oct 18, 2020 in All, Books, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

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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