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’...
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,...
Dark River – Review L D February 24, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 09/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Premiering at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and winning British Film of the Year at the London Critics Circle Film Awards,...
Dark River – LFF 2017 Review L D October 9, 2017 Reviews Premiering at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and winning British Film of the Year at the London Critics Circle Film Awards, The Selfish Giant was Clio Barnard’s second feature. It is safe to say that after...
How Jupiter Ascending Set a New High Bar for Trashy Sci-Fi Carmen Paddock August 1, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance While the Wachowskis have previously found success with films like The Matrix and V for Vendetta (and an arguable, if baffling, masterpiece in Cloud Atlas), Jupiter Ascending garnered lukewarm reviews at best...
Jupiter Ascending – Review Bertie Archer February 3, 2015 Reviews Jupiter Ascending is simply disappointing. The Wachowskis' latest film is confused, creative, crazed, colourful and contradictory, the original promise squandered by schlocky rehashes of the directors’...
Maybeland: Equilibrium Madeline Joint November 27, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland As is customary in dystopian cinema, it is hard to figure out what Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is in favour of as opposed to what it condemns. Starring Christian Bale as John Preston (most likely no...