Edie is a surprising film. It sets out in an unassuming way and develops into something genuinely affecting. It tells the story of a widow in her early eighties, Edie.
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“Baby Done”: Film Review
An inventively disturbing life of the mind is camouflaged by cheerful wholesomeness in “Baby Done”, a low key comedy that flirts with big themes.
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“Make Up”: Film Review
A young woman becomes her own Rebecca in “Make Up”, Claire Oakley’s directorial debut, with flashforwards that push her into adulthood.
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“Il Mio Corpo”: Film Review
The paradox of Stanley and Oscar’s home, their island, Sicily, is that while its horizons – the land, sea and skies – feel limitless, the possibilities it affords its young people are precarious and meagre.
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“Bacurau”: Film Review
Sassy, lethal, and disconcerting, “Bacurau” brings a powerfully surreal twist to the story of Brazil’s cinema of resistance.
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“The Shape of Water”: Film Review
Like all the most accomplished fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro’s world of wonders, “The Shape of Water”, opens with a sense of promise, of magical things to come, and inevitably, with an undertone of darkness.
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Russian Film Week 2020 – Part 1
Russian Film Week is back and in fine form. Opening with “The Whaler Boy”, Philipp Yuryev’s Venice Days winner, the programme also features shorts, masterclasses and talks, including a conversation with Andrey Zviagintsev.
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“Detroit”: A Collision of Genres
Nightmare on 12th Street. July 1967, a sweltering summer in Detroit. The city erupts into rebellion. Looting, arson, snipers.
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“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”: Film Review
It’s over 40 years since film audiences were struck by the childlike wonder of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.
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“Colour Out of Space”: Film Review
This stellar adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” marks a brilliant return for cult director Richard Stanley.
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“I am Thinking of Ending Things”: Film Review
“I am Thinking of Ending Things” is a work steeped in the uncanny which while it hints at horror, borrowing some of the genre’s tropes and cues, delivers instead only horror of a purely existential kind.
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“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”: Film Review
The film provides a powerful emotional and sensory load – one can’t help but emerge from the cinema in an altered state.
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“Coup 53”: Film Review
A chirpy and entertaining film about a dark story with terrible consequences, Coup 53 is charmingly didactic
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“Disobedience”: Film Review
“Disobedience” reveals how one can long for what one also wishes to escape from.
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“Paddington 2” Film Review
Kindness and cascades of fun prevail in this second cinematic outing for young Paddington.
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