The Ritual – Review Naomi Soanes October 14, 2017 Reviews If there’s one thing you can take away from The Ritual it’s this – don’t take a short cut through the woods. However, this is pretty much our only learning from this relatively twist-free horror...
Scene Stealers: Considine and Spall in Hot Fuzz Louise Burrell April 17, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Hot Fuzz is full to the brim with scene-stealing talent. With Simon Pegg and Nick Frost at the helm in the second installment of their Cornetto Trilogy with Edgar Wright, they may be at the centre of some of...
Swallows And Amazons – Review Bertie Archer August 20, 2016 Reviews Swallows and Amazons' free-spirited sense of preteen paradise is overwhelming, as if rose-tinted nostalgia of childhood adventures and better bygone days has been physically melded into the cameras' lenses....
The BFG – Review Eddie Falvey July 24, 2016 Reviews It's hard to think of a more faithful recent adaptation than Spielberg's The BFG. Certainly among blockbusters, it is absolutely the work of a filmmaker caught under the spell of a much-loved novel. The...
A Love Letter To… Life Of Pi Danielle Davenport November 8, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia I first saw Life of Pi in immersive, delicate and dreamlike 3-D, and left the cinema enraptured by the story I’d seen. The spectacle of the film offered adventure, emotion, allegorical insight, and stunning...
X+Y – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 14, 2014 Reviews Morgan Matthews' X+Y employs refreshing subtlety in place of generically afforded melodrama. Despite playing host to numerous mental and physical disabilities, X+Y commendably eschews blatant and obvious...
What If – Review Rachel Brook August 18, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Despite its title this isn’t a film about ‘if’, it’s about ‘when’. Yet as it progresses, sometimes ploddingly, to the inevitable conclusion the long-awaited coupling of Wallace (Radcliffe) and...