Summerland – Review Alysha Prasad August 1, 2020 Reviews Summerland, from writer-director Jessica Swale, is a period drama that focuses on Alice (Gemma Arterton), a reclusive writer living on her own who spends her days researching, endlessly working away at her...
Vita & Virginia – Review Josefine Algieri July 4, 2019 Reviews Based on a stage play by co-writer Eileen Atkins, Chanya Button’s sophomore feature Vita & Virginia is supposed to be a long overdue film about the great love affair between Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth...
Their Finest – Review Tori Brazier April 22, 2017 Reviews Second World War-based films seem to be a particularly British obsession – but here comes Their Finest to remind us, in a rather shining example, why that's quite a good idea. A sweet, spiky and...
100 Streets – Review Rachel Brook November 12, 2016 Reviews 100 Streets seems to aim for Crash in London, but lands in overwrought soapy territory, with respected big-name actors such as Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton and Ken Stott surrounded by unexpectedly low production...
The Girl With All The Gifts – Review David Brake September 25, 2016 Reviews There’s a welcome breath of air that whistles in through this film. The Girl With All The Gifts removes itself from the cyclical narrative of ‘just survive’ present within 99% of zombie films. It aims...
Gemma Bovery – Review Bertie Archer August 22, 2015 Reviews Gemma Bovery is a film of inconsistencies; Gemma Arterton’s titular character is interchangeably ignorant and fluent in French, suffering rural ennui and enamoured by country living. Though it may be...
COMPETITION – Win The Voices on DVD! David Brake July 7, 2015 Competitions It's competition season over at One Room With A View! Up next, thanks to our great new friends at Noble PR, we've got three copies of The Voices to win ! Not heard of it? Shame on you. Check out the...
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...