The Swimmers – Review Rachel Brook November 25, 2022 Reviews The Swimmers is a respectful and accessible refugee story focussing predominantly on the Mardini sisters – the titular athletes – and chronicling their 2015 journey from Syria to Berlin. The longish...
The Secret Garden – Review Fatima Sheriff October 25, 2020 Reviews Based on the novel from 1910, this remake shifts the famous story to 1947. Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx) is rescued from an India torn apart by Partition and travels to her uncle (Colin Firth) in the crumbling...
Radioactive – Review Phil W. Bayles March 18, 2020 Reviews Radioactive should have been a slam dunk. The life of Marie Curie is ripe for cinematic adaptation, and this one is directed by Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian filmmaker behind the autobiographical...
Tom Harper Talks War Book, Low-Budget Filmmaking and War and Peace Tom Bond August 14, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview 70 years on from the world-changing atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film about the dangers of nuclear war is finally getting the attention it deserves. War Book is about a government exercise where...
War Book – LFF Review Tom Bond October 14, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment You face a decision. You will kill millions. Or, you will watch the world burn around you. Sick to your guts you feel the cold dread of a desperately uncertain future. It’s time to decide. The premise...
