The Tale – Sundance London 2018 Review Rachel Brook June 1, 2018 Reviews The Tale is a spiralling and endlessly fascinating work. Non-fiction filmmaker Jennifer Fox applies her documentarian’s eye to her own childhood, peeling back onion-like layers of memory and teasingly...
Stories From The Set: Requiem for a Dream Thom Denson September 14, 2017 Features, Stories from the Set This weekend sees the release of Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, Mother!, a film in which the New York auteur torments his collaborative (and, to those of us not above the gossip columns, romantic) partner...
Wiener-Dog – Sundance London Review Rachel Brook May 31, 2016 Reviews Whole swathes of Wiener-Dog have nothing to do with the titular pooch who is ultimately only a contrived and poorly executed device for hanging four grotesque stories together. The first segment, which...
A Love Letter To… The Last Picture Show Calum Baker June 30, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Peter Bogdanovich's breakthrough third feature is still one of the greatest in American cinema, not least for how unexpected it was - and still is. The director came out of film criticism and venerated...
Stories from the Set: The Exorcist Patrick Taylor February 6, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Since the inception of cinema, there have been precious few films which have achieved the level of notoriety enjoyed by The Exorcist. Based on a novel by William Blatty and widely regarded as one of the most...
