Frankie – Review Tom Bond May 28, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2019 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Any film not made for mass audiences is always at risk of sliding into a montage of first world problems, such is...
Misbehaviour – Review Carmen Paddock March 13, 2020 Reviews Philippa Lowthorpe’s latest feature immediately roots itself in its historical moment: before its opening title Misbehaviour has cut between divorced London mother interviewing for a spot at university, a...
Strange But True – Edinburgh Film Festival Review Carmen Paddock June 24, 2019 Reviews A panicked young man runs through a forest, moments ahead of an unseen assailant and heavily hampered by a broken leg. The view then abruptly cuts to two days earlier, when his brother’s high school...
Little Men – Review Rachel Brook September 25, 2016 Reviews With Little Men Ira Sachs continues to represent his cynical view of the working generation. In 2014’s Love is Strange he placed his sympathies firmly with an elderly gay couple. This time he swings to the...
A Love Letter To… Little Miss Sunshine Ellen Dwyer February 18, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Little Miss Sunshine is an emotional rollercoaster of a film which is as sweet and comic as it is serious and tragic. The film tells the story of the Hoover family driving from New Mexico to California for...