FRESH – Sundance 2022 Review Alysha Prasad January 26, 2022 Reviews Mimi Cave’s debut film FRESH shows the jaded Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) scrolling through an endless sea of faces on dating apps and sitting through a mind-numbing first date, but just when all hope seems lost,...
Endings, Beginnings – Review Sophie Butcher August 7, 2020 Reviews A love triangle between a woman searching for "The One" and two men who are polar opposites may be something we’ve seen many times before, but a grounded, melancholic atmosphere and brilliantly vulnerable...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Edinburgh Film Festival Review Carmen Paddock June 27, 2019 Reviews Based on Shirley Jackson’s final novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle never leaves the perspective of 18 year old Merricat (Taissa Farmiga), who lives reclusively with her older sister Constance...
Destroyer – Review Joni Blyth January 25, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 16/10/2018. You can’t even look at a still of Destroyer without discussing the elephant in the room. Nicole Kidman blows...
Destroyer – LFF 2018 Review Joni Blyth October 16, 2018 Reviews You can’t even look at a still of Destroyer without discussing the elephant in the room. Nicole Kidman blows everything else out of the water – the confidence in her performance is astounding. While no...
I, Tonya – Review David Brake February 25, 2018 Reviews "I was loved for a minute, then I was hated. Then I was just a punch line," so says Margot Robbie at the end of her tour de force performance in I, Tonya. A tragic finale to the tale of infamous ice-skater...
By The Book: The Martian Rachel Brook October 6, 2015 Analysis, By The Book, Features Welcome to By The Book, where we compare books with their cinematic adaptations. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy...