Notturno – Review Anna McKibbin March 6, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. In one of the first scenes of Notturno we see a distraught mother mourning her lost son. She is stood wailing...
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets – Review Joni Blyth December 25, 2020 Reviews This film was originally reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets sets out to break the rules of cinema. Why do we have to distinguish between...
Farewell Amor – Review Anahit Behrooz December 19, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. Farewell Amor’s opening scene, a man clutching flowers at an airport as his long-awaited family arrives from...
Possessor – Review Sophie Maxwell November 28, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. In Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor, Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is an assassin who enters her targets’...
Another Round – Review Rob Salusbury November 21, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. Another Round sees the Danish dream team of Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Vinterberg finally back together, eight...
Ammonite, Nomadland and Female Freedom Alex Goldstein November 9, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features So many women’s stories are about freedom: choosing it, fearing it, paying for it. At the London Film Festival this year, two of the most talked about features - Nomadland and Ammonite - had the same...
The Human Voice – Review Alex Goldstein November 7, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. You could say a film about isolation, in 2020, is timely. But for all the many beats they have in common,...
The Painter and the Thief – Review Rob Salusbury November 1, 2020 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival 2020 coverage. The story could’ve been torn straight out of a Hitchcock thriller: two thieves break into a gallery and steal two...
Relic – Review Rob Salusbury November 1, 2020 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival 2020 coverage. Playing out like a particularly morbid episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, the Australia-set Relic digs into a...
Wolfwalkers – Review Joni Blyth October 29, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. Everyone daydreams of life in the skies, taking wing and soaring through the clouds. But let’s be real,...
New Order – LFF 2020 Review Sophie Maxwell October 19, 2020 Reviews With much of the world experiencing some degree of political and social unrest, it would seem a pertinent time for the release of New Order, Michel Franco’s dystopian thriller about societal collapse in...
Ammonite – LFF 2020 Review Rafaela Sales Ross October 19, 2020 Reviews Following his sublime directorial debut, God’s Own Country, Francis Lee once again delves into feelings of repression, loneliness and desire in Ammonite. Inspired by the life of trailblazing British...
Zanka Contact – LFF 2020 Review Sophie Maxwell October 18, 2020 Reviews In the opening minutes of Zanka Contact, a smart and funny sex worker named Rajae tells a dark joke about a car crash to her taxi driver. Moments later, she is in a dramatic crash herself. Larsen, a faded rock...
African Apocalypse – LFF 2020 Review Anahit Behrooz October 17, 2020 Reviews Step into any British university literature department and a debate on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness will be in full force. Is it a thoughtful examination of European imperialism, or a racist relic that...
Striding Into the Wind – LFF 2020 Review Anna McKibbin October 17, 2020 Reviews Striding Into the Wind is a light hearted, coming-of-age romp that captures the turbulence of one’s early 20’s through the highs and lows of owning a car. Kun is an indecisive, final year film student,...