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Make Up Film 2019 review

“Make Up”: Film Review

“9 Fingers” (9 doigts): Film Review

A still form Phantom Thread, NYE party.

“Phantom Thread”: Review

“Parasite” Colour Edition: Film Review

Dovlatov kitchen

“Dovlatov” – Aleksey German Jr in Conversation

Paddington 2 Film
Comedy

“Paddington 2” Film Review

Kindness and cascades of fun prevail in this second cinematic outing for young Paddington.

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Dark Comedy, Horror

“Parasite” B&W Edition: Film Review

While Bong Joon Ho’s spectacularly successful Parasite was collecting awards in Cannes and at the Oscars, its black & white twin was quietly waiting in the vaults – or maybe in the basement of a beautiful but foreboding modernist villa.

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The Truth Catherine Deneuve Juliette Binoche in a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Tragicomedy, Venice 2019

“The Truth”: Film Review

A palimpsestic chamber piece in a minor key, Kore-eda’s “The Truth” stars Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in a film that is as French as they come – almost.

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London Film Festival 2018

“9 Fingers” (9 doigts): Film Review

Shot in black and white, in glorious chiaroscuro, this film by cult director FJ Ossang is a delight.

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Thelma and Father on Icy Lake_Thelma Film
Interview, London Film Festival 2017

“Thelma”: an Interview with Joachim Trier and Eili Harboe

Joachim Trier’s film “Thelma”, made with his long-term collaborators, writer Eskil Vogt, cinematographer Jakob Ihre and composer Ola Fløttum, marks a new development in the director’s career.

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Berlinale 2018, Drama, Interview

“Las Herederas (The Heiresses)”: Interview with Marcelo Martinessi

A long relationship plays out in a world of light and dark among the upper classes of Paraguay. Director/writer Marcelo Martinessi talks about his Berlinale prize-winning film.

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Science Fiction

“Imitation Girl”: Film Review

In the empty, rock-strewn landscape of the New Mexico desert, a meteorite pierces through the cloudy sky.

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Romantic Drama

“Call Me By Your Name”: Film Review

Charming and bucolic, a meandering story of a summer idyll unexpectedly builds up into something deeply moving and memorable.

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Drama

“The Florida Project”: Film Review

Mayhem reigns wherever Moonee (Brooklyn Prince), an irrepressible six-year-old, leads her friends. She is a little tornado of mischief, and has an answer for everything.

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Drama

“Padre”: Film Review

Giada Colagrande’s latest film explores love after loss, in a richly musical and luminous story.

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Drama, Netflix

“Roma”: Film Review

An aesthetically stunning cinematic feat, Roma gives a vivid account of a Mexico City childhood set against a backdrop of surging political repression.

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We Are One Film Festival 2020

“Shiraz: A Romance of India”: Film Review

Made in 1928, Shiraz tells the tale of a great love which came to be immortalised in stone – the Taj Mahal.

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Classics, Screwball Comedy

“The Lady Eve”: Film Review

Self-possessed, proud, glacially witty and maddeningly funny: Barbara Stanwyck is a dame like no other in this scintillating, effervescent screwball comedy.

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A still from horror film The Ritual
Horror, Psychological Thriller

“The Ritual”: Film Review

What better way to transcend harrowing guilt and grief, than to be immersed in a world of primal fear?

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Johnny Harris as Jimmie McCabe in Jawbone movie
Drama, New British Cinema

“Jawbone”: Film Review

South London, City lights in the distance. The crepuscular gloom envelops a man felled by loss, drink and impending homelessness.  He has nowhere to go, and no loved ones.  Yet “Jawbone” is a quietly exhilarating film.

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