White Noise – Review Tom Bond December 2, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2022 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise (1985) depicts an era where the relative security of Western middle class...
House of Gucci – Review Carmen Paddock November 27, 2021 Reviews When a film takes every chance at extravagance, the chance of falling is equal or greater to the chance of flying. House of Gucci takes this gamble, and while it might not pay off entirely, the big-budget...
Annette – Review Alysha Prasad November 26, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Green and red. Leos Carax’s rock opera, Annette, features the self-proclaimed “Ape of God” Henry McHenry...
The Last Duel – Review Anahit Behrooz October 15, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. The Last Duel, Ridley Scott’s latest men-with-swords epic, is a medieval courtly tale for the #MeToo...
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Review David Brake December 20, 2019 Reviews There’s a famous restaurant in New York called Peter Luger Steak House. It was established in 1887, and boasts brass chandeliers, exposed wooden beams and aromas to excite your ancestors. The hiss of...
A Love Letter To… The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Louise Burrell November 20, 2019 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Noah Baumbach makes his return to Netflix on 6th December with the highly-anticipated Marriage Story, currently in select UK cinemas and starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a married couple who are...
The Report – LFF 2019 Review Jack Blackwell September 30, 2019 Reviews One of the most tiresome habits of modern film marketing and discourse is the obsession with timeliness. Every "serious" release has to be related to Trump or Brexit or MeToo, even if the connection is...
Marriage Story – Venice 2019 Review Jack King August 30, 2019 Reviews If your partner (or, perhaps, ex) is notching Emmy nominations while your play has just been shelved from Broadway, is it justifiable to be jealous? What if your marriage is actively obstructing your ambition?...
The Dead Don’t Die – Edinburgh Film Festival Review Carmen Paddock June 24, 2019 Reviews There is always that friend at parties who tells the same joke on repeat – one which delights them more than the listeners and gets endlessly rephrased with diminishing returns. This is the personification...
Team Talk – BlacKkKlansman Rachel Brook August 27, 2018 Reviews Spike Lee is back with the characteristically audacious and opinionated BlacKkKlansman, and according to our Senior Features Ed, Tom, this is nothing but good. Tom awarded the latest Spike Lee joint a...
BlacKkKlansman – Review Tom Bond August 25, 2018 Reviews In 2012, when Obama was president and racism in America seemed to be fading, Django Unchained featured a notorious scene with the Ku Klux Klan. Squabbling about eyeholes and spare bags, the white supremacist...
BlacKkKlansman – Cannes 2018 Review Tom Bond May 15, 2018 Reviews In 2012, when Obama was president and racism in America seemed to be fading, Django Unchained featured a notorious scene with the Ku Klux Klan. Squabbling about eyeholes and spare bags, the white supremacist...
“Darkness Rises, and Light to Meet It”: How The Last Jedi Found the Balance in the Force David Brake December 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Warning: this article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. This is not going to go the way you think! —Luke Skywalker, The Last Jedi Ambiguity (noun). The quality of being open to more than one...
Vintage Movie Magic in Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rhys Handley December 22, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Imagine getting to make a Star Wars movie. Imagine the millions upon millions of dollars Lucasfilm would leave in your lap. Imagine the stellar...
Team Talk – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rachel Brook December 17, 2017 Reviews It's that time of year again. Christmas? No. Time for a new Star Wars release! After the continuity-eschewing interlude of Rogue One, we're back in the franchise's main stable to catch up with the characters...