Author Tori Brazier

Set in the rural north east of Brazil at a traditional rodeo, Neon Bull has the potential to be an engaging film – particularly with the addition of the lead Iremar’s subversive interest in costuming. It...

An insightful tribute from adopted ‘nephew’ Samba Gadjigo, Sembene! tells the remarkable journey of Ousmane Sembène from Senegalese fisherman to Marseilles docker to the ‘father of African...

Suffragette humanizes the struggle for voting equality in 1912, bringing its harsh (force-fed) realities to the fore as downtrodden laundress Maud (a top-notch Carey Mulligan) is pulled into the Women’s...

James White charts the peaks and troughs of a mother-son relationship in the aftermath of bereavement and the throes of terminal illness. This unflinching film showcases the power of cinema as a tool for...

From prolific filmmaker Takeshi Kitano comes Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen, a slightly bonkers black comedy about an elderly bunch of Japanese Yakuza, who regroup when their ex-leader Ryuzo is bamboozled by a...

Michael Fassbender – we’ve seen a lot of him (in more ways than one) in what seems like a few short years, but this actor has been working hard as a professional for more than two decades now. He is...

Director Walter Salles plunges straight in from frame one with his subject in Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang, a very personal study of Sixth Generation Chinese director and writer Zhangke. The...

Despite a light, almost joyful opening, Beasts of No Nation is, unsurprisingly, no easy watch. It charts a descent into further – and constant – brutality. Once bright but traumatised youngster Agu (a...

Cameron Crowe relationship dramas aren’t the most novel of films, recently having a yen for ‘trying to find themselves’ lead characters, which has become rather trite. In Aloha this is mostly avoided,...

From those behind the Horrible Histories hit TV show comes Bill, a fabulous Shakespearean romp set during the playwright’s ‘lost years’ between Stratford (where he’s a failed lute player) and his...

The great movie musical institution, otherwise known as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, sprinkled its box office gold dust over ten pictures, and that which arguably received the lion’s share was 1935’s...

Oh sequels, what a burden you bear – particularly when the bridge in a trilogy. Any tension or curiosity is firmly nixed from the off as the audience already know that the Gladers, unbeknownst to themselves,...

High-flying but unsettled couple Simon and Robyn (the convincingly slimy/angelic pairing of Bateman and Hall) encounter Gordo, Simon’s intense high school classmate. His gradual imposition on their lives...

Defending Troy is enough to get you excommunicated from the Classics community - for there is a lot wrong with the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster, adapted from Homer’s epic poem the Iliad. There is, however,...

Anita Dobson stars in new musical London Road, alongside Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy and the entire cast of the original theatre production, which had two successful runs at the National Theatre. Based on...