How It Ends – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 2, 2021 Reviews Hours before a meteor is due to decimate all life on Earth, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) crosses a deserted LA alongside an unusual sidekick: a younger version of herself (Cailee Spaeny). With a farewell party...
Booksmart – Review Alex Goldstein May 25, 2019 Reviews Booksmart takes the essentials of a rowdy, raunchy high school comedy and flips them, though it would be a disservice to suggest this is simply by putting girls in the driver’s seat. It’s much more nuanced...
Life Itself – Review Rhys Handley January 4, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 15/10/2018. You know the dude in Starbucks, the one with the thick-rimmed glasses, chequered shirt and a macchiato...
Life Itself – LFF 2018 review Rhys Handley October 15, 2018 Reviews You know the dude in Starbucks, the one with the thick-rimmed glasses, chequered shirt and a macchiato who’s forever working on his screenplay? Well, Life Itself is that very screenplay, and somehow it’s...
News of the Week – 18th March 2016 Stephen O'Nion March 18, 2016 News The Weekly Report All news contained herein corresponds to the world of film. The Weekly Report will seek to cover general film news that has emerged over the last seven days. Olivia Wilde “too...
Love the Coopers – Review Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan December 6, 2015 Reviews Though advertised as a family comedy, Love the Coopers has a sad undertone, which might be too close to home for some. This isn’t to say the film skimps on Christmas corn, which undoes the good work of the...
Maybeland: Her Madeline Joint June 29, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland 3 Comments Maybeland is a new feature exploring all the Brave New Worlds of cinema, a look at the various visions of the future – utopic, dystopic and in-between – that all have their own style, predictions and ideas...
Her – Review Tom Bond February 14, 2014 Reviews 3 Comments Whether you view Her as a vision of dystopia or utopia rather depends on your relationship with technology. To Theodore (Phoenix) it is at once the reason and remedy for his loneliness. He is struggling to...
Drinking Buddies – Review Chris Davies November 7, 2013 Reviews From Joe Swanberg, a master of the mumblecore movement, Drinking Buddies is a charming – if indulgent – anti-romcom revolving around four friends and a microbrewery. The unconventional setting never...