Luce – LFF 2019 Review Jack Blackwell October 6, 2019 Reviews It is hard to explain exactly what Luce is. Initially a serious look at the pressure put on high-achieving black students in US schools, it shifts so many times – even into trashy thriller territory – that...
Hardcore Henry – Review Naomi Soanes April 9, 2016 Reviews Hardcore Henry is one of those rare films that almost makes so little sense that it makes perfect sense. But what it lacks in plotline, it makes up for with some seriously innovative first-person special...
Chronic – Review Phil W. Bayles February 27, 2016 Reviews Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at last year’s Cannes Festival, Chronic makes Michael Haneke’s Amour feel like a Richard Curtis romcom. Michel Franco’s camera intrudes, cold and clinical, on...
Selma – Review Danielle Davenport February 3, 2015 Reviews 3 Comments There is much to recommend Selma besides the lure of Martin Luther King. It is creative and well told; never indolent and always interesting; grandiose yet intimate. DuVernay - through a wonderfully slender...