Ten Unforgettable Films That Have Haunted Us Since Childhood Tom Bond December 23, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The greatest films linger in your memory long after the credits have rolled, but there’s a particular power to those we watch as children: impressionable young minds latching onto striking images and twisted...
David Byrne’s American Utopia – Review Tom Bond December 12, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. David Byrne’s American Utopia begins with what is almost a caricature of the man himself. Infamously awkward...
Babyteeth – Review Tom Bond December 8, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2019 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. It’s hard to avoid the twin evils of mawkishness and misery when making a film about cancer, but Shannon...
Mank – Review Tom Bond December 6, 2020 Reviews Herman J. Mankiewicz is not anybody’s first choice for a prestige Hollywood biopic. He may have co-written one of the greatest films of all time, Citizen Kane (and that’s debated), but to most people the...
Murder Me, Monster – Review Tom Bond December 4, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2018 as part of our Cannes Festival coverage. Argentinian writer-director Alejandro Fadel doesn’t pull any punches in his ghoulish and gory horror, Murder Me,...
About Endlessness – Review Tom Bond November 5, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2019 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Roy Andersson must be a master of the throwaway dinner party anecdote. His work is filled with sharp...
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Review Tom Bond October 22, 2020 Reviews As talented a writer and performer as Sacha Baron Cohen is, the success of Borat always came down to one thing: its ability to shock. The moments where Borat’s clueless racism and sexism encouraged America...
Lovers Rock – LFF 2020 Review Tom Bond October 17, 2020 Reviews Lovers Rock is a humble prospect on paper- just over an hour long and set at an ordinary blues dance in Notting Hill in the early ‘80s. But with those simple ingredients, writer/director Steve McQueen and...
One Man and His Shoes – LFF 2020 Review Tom Bond October 14, 2020 Reviews It’s unfortunate for director Yemi Bamiro that his documentary One Man and His Shoes comes out in the same year as ESPN’s superb doc series The Last Dance. Both deal with Michael Jordan’s basketball...
Eyimofe (This is My Desire) – LFF 2020 Review Tom Bond October 11, 2020 Reviews When we think of capitalism we think of suited bankers and Western businessmen; if our thoughts stray to less economically developed countries, it is only as the victims of capitalism, whether that’s from...
Mangrove – LFF 2020 Review Tom Bond October 7, 2020 Reviews With Mangrove, there’s a sense that writer-director Steve McQueen is searching for a new way to tell stories about the injustices inflicted on Black people. Where his previous films, particularly Hunger and...
Les Misérables – Review Tom Bond September 2, 2020 Reviews Anger is an energy, and the residents of Paris suburb Montfermeil have more than enough to go around. Local resident Ladj Ly builds his feature debut Les Misérables around this force, which simmers under the...
Top 10 Movie Moments of 2020… So Far Tom Bond June 30, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 2020 has been a year to forget for many reasons. But today we’re here to focus on the positives. Even with only three months of cinema-going under our belts, the amount of incredible movie moments is as high...
The Dead and the Others – Review Tom Bond June 28, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2018 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. The Dead and the Others is a complex creation from directors Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader Messora, which can’t...
Joan of Arc – Review Tom Bond June 18, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2019 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Try to work out what kind of filmmaker Bruno Dumont is and he’s bound to frustrate you. He first made his name...