Category: Reviews
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The Goob – Review
“Guy Myhill’s debut feature The Goob is a movie that will have you gripped and absorbed but not necessarily enthralled”… Read More >
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The New Girlfriend – Review
“The film is moving in parts and hilarious in others”… Read More >
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A Royal Night Out – Review
V.E. Day has only recently been explored in cinema, in the Oscar winning drama The King’s Speech, as the entire feature builds up towards the big night, and King George’s prominent and celebrated speech to the British public. But what we know somewhat less about, is what his daughters got up to on that very… Read More >
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Phoenix – Review
The thing you’ve been searching for your whole life has been staring you straight in the face. Or at least, there’s a similar lesson to be taken from Phoenix, the astonishing new film from Christian Petzold that frequently makes jaw-dropping observations on human nature. The Second World War has come to an end, but not… Read More >
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Spooks: The Greater Good – Review
The MI5 could do with some updating and rebranding in cinema. Thanks to a certain 007 agent, we have a very specific, traditionalist view on the Secret Service that is by no means a reflection on reality. However, in Spooks: The Greater Good – the first feature length film to derive from the popular television… Read More >
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Stray Dogs – Review
Over the years, ‘slow’ cinema has served up some of the most engrossing, hypnotic permutations of the medium we’ve yet seen. Simply look at Lav Diaz’s acclaimed 4-hour polemepic (our word) Norte, the End of History or the upcoming From What Is Before, which clocks in at over 5 and-a-half hours; both use incredibly long… Read More >
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The Age of Adaline – Review
Lee Toland Krieger’s ambitious, enchanting The Age of Adaline is a dark fairytale of sorts, a magical, twisted endeavour that is surrealistic and fantastical. However it’s the filmmaker’s inability to revel in such a notion which proves to be at the film’s detriment, as despite being a unique, absorbing feature, here’s a title that’s too… Read More >
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Samba – Review
Now seems as good a time as any for a film that deals with the subject of immigration to be released – and even more pertinent and essential is to see the world from their perspective, and go on their journey with them, allowing the audience to invest in the characters at hand and empathise… Read More >
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Far From the Madding Crowd – Review
After the accomplished 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, starring Julie Christie and Terence Stamp, you do wonder if there’s any real need for stepping back into this world again – especially when not modernising the narrative, instead presenting this tale in the era it’s set. However, with Thomas Vinterberg at the helm… Read More >
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The Good Lie – Review
“this is sadly not a special piece of cinema, but that’s not to say it isn’t accomplished.” Read More >
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