Tagged alice lowe

Eternal Beauty is a touching, thought-provoking film about a woman, Jane (Sally Hawkins, on sparkling form), living with paranoid schizophrenia. Its triumph is its unswerving ability to present mental illness...

This bittersweet debut feature from The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird is a mature and poignant tale of family struggles. Based on Joff Winterhart’s 2012 graphic novel of the same name, this particular family,...

Hot Fuzz meets Trainspotting in this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival opener: a farce that weaves every throwaway gag and ridiculous scenario into a raucous, joyous paean to youthful...

This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 13/10/2019. Loss and longing has ripped through three generations of the Mellor family. The setup is bleak, the visual...

https://vimeo.com/251295114 Following on from last year's comedy-horror Prevenge, Alice Lowe once again finds herself playing a woman in the wake of her partner's death. Deliciously dark and completely...

Prevenge opens with a heavily pregnant Ruth (Alice Lowe) murdering a seemingly harmless, although admittedly creepy, reptile shop owner. No explanation is given, and from here we hang onto Ruth’s...

A film is a complex machine of moving parts, and the best built don’t creak but turn smoothly, keeping mechanical secrets veiled and showing only the fictional world they seek to create. Adult Life Skills is...

https://vimeo.com/139853607 This twisted comedy short uses a sci-fi premise to build a strange and hilarious tale of infidelity. An innocent encounter between two strangers – writer Michael Spicer and...