The Many Saints of Newark – Review Christopher Preston September 26, 2021 Reviews The Many Saints Of Newark will be judged in the same way The Godfather Part III was: a robustly made, averagely enjoyable gangster flick which is choked by the masterpiece standing behind it. Fourteen years...
Ice on Fire – Cannes 2019 Review Tom Bond May 23, 2019 Reviews In a sane world, Ice on Fire wouldn't exist. Mass global audiences would've been woken up by the comprehensive climate change warnings of An Inconvenient Truth back in 2006, rather than simply stirring in...
A Beginner’s Guide to… Andrew Haigh Alex Flood May 1, 2018 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features In recent interviews, filmmaker Andrew Haigh has expressed “doubts” about his creative decisions and a fear of being “typecast” as a gay filmmaker. This inner turmoil is part of what makes his work so...
Short of the Week – A Mighty Nice Man Louise Burrell April 3, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/209597030 Based on Patricia Highsmith’s book of the same name, HBO-backed A Mighty Nice Man tells the eerie story of a little girl’s loss of innocence. When Charlotte and her...
Entourage – Review Bertie Archer June 20, 2015 Reviews It's ironic that a film partly about the excesses of Hollywood has so much excess baggage - doubly so when this includes a contrived subplot concerning the film-within-a-film needing some of its weaker...
Entourage: The What and the Why, God, Why? Stephen O'Nion February 9, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion Entourage ended on the 11th of September 2011. The show concluded with the cast riding off into the sunset. Entourage being Entourage, the gang rode off in a plane. Two planes. Two private planes. And a...
The Case Against 8 – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston May 6, 2014 Reviews The Case Against 8 is a never-more-than-ordinary documentary about a never-less-than-extraordinary series of events. Needless, theatricality proves to be its main undoing. In one scene, Ted Olson reads back...
Making It Big: The Million Dollar Duck David Brake November 24, 2013 Features, Independent, Making It Big So far in Making It Big, we've promoted gorgeous stop motion animations to feature length psychological thrillers - all within the boundaries of the fictional. Therefore it's time to support the factual with a...