Category: Reviews
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Suite Francaise – Review
“An all-star cast and a sweeping wartime story should have been the stuff of little gold statuettes. However, the fact that this well-meaning but ultimately mediocre romance didn’t even get a look in, should speak volumes…” Read More >
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Review
Of late, vampire flicks have seen somewhat of a resurgence in quality. What We Do in the Shadows peeked into the lives of vampiric housemates with This is Spinal Tap! results; Only Lovers Left Alive used the creatures’ immortality as a thinking cap to ponder the meaning of existence; bloodsuckers converged on a sleepy British… Read More >
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10.000 Km – Review
Whether you know it or not, love is one of the grand constants of cinema; our relationships with characters, our investment in a film’s story, and even our perception of morality is all tied up in the L word, and how the tricky thing meddles with everything it touches. But it’s still something that can… Read More >
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The Duke of Burgundy – Review
“Its erudite erotica will make you think, feel, and perhaps throb – but the blood will be exclusively rushing to your head.” Read More >
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Fifty Shades of Grey – Review
“the film’s narrative is a somewhat more traditional, romantic tale – so if director Sam Taylor-Johnson can extract that from the page, and use it to build a film around, it could turn out to be quite good, right?” Read More >
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The Theory of Everything review
“both characters are wonderfully crafted. Imperfect, flawed, and human”… Read More >
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Say When review
“Say When works for one simple reason: Megan. She’s a fascinating entry point into this tale, as a distinctively flawed protagonist.” Read More >
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Life After Beth review
After 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, a new sub-genre was born: the ZomCom. Juan of the Dead; Zombieland; Warm Bodies; all of these movies have had their characters fighting – and sometimes loving – the undead horde that shuffles toward them. Life After Beth carries on much in the same tradition, but sadly doesn’t join… Read More >
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Magic in the Moonlight review
“The atmosphere is magical, the 1920s setting seems perfectly fitting to Allen’s tone”… Read More >
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What If Review
“In spite of the myriad of issues within this underwhelming romantic comedy, there is a humour that exists, which derives predominantly from the awkward, uncomfortable nature of our leading duos’ conversation”… Read More >
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