American Psycho – My First Time Film Review Carmen Paddock March 25, 2020 Reviews In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. We begin with Carmen catching up on Mary Harron's American Psycho. Mary Harron’s brutal satire of corporate...
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...
Lizzie – Review Jack Blackwell December 16, 2018 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 03/10/2018. Lizzie wastes no time laying out its theories as to who committed the 1892 Borden murders, a grisly double...
Lizzie – LFF 2018 Review Jack Blackwell October 3, 2018 Reviews Lizzie wastes no time laying out its theories as to who committed the 1892 Borden murders, a grisly double homicide by hatchet for which no one was ever found guilty. Opening on the immediate aftermath of the...
Lean On Pete – Review Jack Blackwell May 4, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 01/09/17 as part of Venice Film Festival. Full of wide, near-barren vistas and trying to fit three different films into one, Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete has all the...
Lean On Pete – Venice 2017 Review Jack Blackwell September 1, 2017 Reviews Full of wide, near-barren vistas and trying to fit three different films into one, Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete has all the hallmarks of a Brit director’s first foray to America. It gets lost in the...
Beatriz at Dinner – Sundance London 2017 Review L D June 1, 2017 Reviews The opening film of this year’s Sundance London film festival is Miguel Arteta’s dark comedy Beatriz at Dinner. Arteta seats Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Chloë Sevigny, and others uncomfortably around the...
Whit Stillman: Love, Friendship and Disco Calum Baker June 2, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Whit Stillman's new film, Love and Friendship, is notable not just for being such a rarity (being after all his fifth film in 26 years) but also for reuniting the stars of his cult classic The Last Days of...
Love & Friendship – Review Rachel Brook May 29, 2016 Reviews Love and Friendship is far less funny than it should be. Most of its witty moments appeared in the trailer, and therefore lack full impact when actually seen in context. The runtime passes slowly in...
Behind The Rules Of Dogme 95 Cameron Ward May 29, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features - "Thus I make my VOW OF CHASTITY" - Dogme 95 (sometimes known as Dogma or Dogma 95) was an avant-garde movement in film production started by Danish-born directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in...
Little Accidents – Sundance London Review Cameron Ward April 30, 2014 Reviews Sara Colangelo's feature debut, Little Accidents, dolefully addresses the personal ramifications of widespread public trauma. Taking place in the small-town setting of Park City, Colangelo...