Cake – Review Ellen Dwyer February 22, 2015 Reviews Cake has all the ingredients of a good film. It has a compelling narrative about emotional and physical pain which is refreshingly explored with wit and sleight of hand. The beautiful cinematography captures...
Into the Woods – Review Patrick Taylor January 10, 2015 Reviews 2 Comments With its loudly trumpeted message of "be careful what you wish for", Rob Marshall’s stagey version of Stephen Sondheim’s fairy tale mash-up musical is toe-tapping good fun. Not aided by the two-part...
Life After Beth – EIFF Review Cameron Ward June 27, 2014 Reviews Writer-director Jeff Baena's directorial and feature debut, Life After Beth, is equal parts tender satire and physical zom-com. Plaza and DeHaan deliver thoroughly accomplished performances, seamlessly...
The Voices – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 29, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments The Voices is a unique blend of (like as not) mutually-exclusive soundtracks, aesthetics, and genre tropes that curiously coalesce into a surprisingly digestible black romcom. Directed by...
Drinking Buddies – Review Chris Davies November 7, 2013 Reviews From Joe Swanberg, a master of the mumblecore movement, Drinking Buddies is a charming – if indulgent – anti-romcom revolving around four friends and a microbrewery. The unconventional setting never...