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Till – LFF 2022 Review

Chinonye Chukwu’s sophomore feature is dogged by the same questions facing historical dramas: why dramatise a known story, and why tell it now? Till faces a heightened hurdle by recounting the circumstances...
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Hidden Away – Berlinale 2020 Review

Biopics are tricky; there is a balance to strike between comprehensively covering the subject's entire life and picking a dramatically satisfying theme and tone. Hidden Away reaches for the former but brings...
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Effie Gray – Review

As another chapter in the evolving period genre, Effie Gray combines the best of Merchant Ivory with the claustrophobia of a modern domestic thriller. Though the film is separated from Gone Girl by time,...