Judas and the Black Messiah – Review Alysha Prasad March 11, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Shaka King’s highly anticipated Judas and the Black Messiah takes us back to 1968 in Chicago, Illinois....
Queen and Slim – Review Chris Edwards January 29, 2020 Reviews Fugitive road movies struggle to cover new territory, with fierce competition from genre defining giants. Queen and Slim takes well-known elements from different sources and creates an interesting compound,...
Widows – Review Jack Blackwell November 6, 2018 Reviews As one of the most rigorous and unflinching auteurs to emerge in the last decade, it would have been hard to guess that Steve McQueen’s fourth feature, Widows – his first since his Oscar-winning 12 Years...
Widows – LFF 2018 Review Jack Blackwell October 11, 2018 Reviews As one of the most rigorous and unflinching auteurs to emerge in the last decade, it would have been hard to guess that Steve McQueen’s fourth feature, Widows – his first since his Oscar-winning 12 Years...
Second Chance: Johnny English James Andrews October 2, 2018 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance As Rowan Atkinson returns this week for a third Johnny English film that no-one really asked for, it seems inevitable that this unlikely franchise (based around a character created for a '90s Barclaycard ad...
ORWAV Oscars 2018 – The Results Tom Bond March 4, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off For once our ORWAV Oscar nominations turned up a similar list to the Academy, suggesting that this time, maybe, they’ve recognised the right performances and films. With just a handful of underdogs creeping...
Team Talk – Black Panther Louise Burrell February 18, 2018 Reviews The first Marvel feature of 2018 has landed and looks sure to be one of the biggest films of the year. Long-awaited and much-needed, Black Panther has undeniably struck a chord with audiences worldwide. Our...
Black Panther – Review Stephanie Watts February 8, 2018 Reviews Black Panther is the first Marvel instalment of 2018, and it’s opening the year with a bang. Featuring an enormously talented cast, the film tells the story of the Black Panther T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman)...
Top 20 Films of 2017: #1 – Get Out Kambole Campbell December 31, 2017 Analysis, Features Spoilers ahead. This isn’t the best made film on the list. Just to get the acknowledgement out of the way early – Get Out is Jordan Peele’s first solo film as writer and director, and it occasionally...
Get Out – Review Rachel Brook March 11, 2017 Reviews Jordan Peele’s Get Out has quite accurately been described as a horror movie where the villain is racism. In this accomplished first feature, Peele intelligently intertwines historical contexts of racially...