Category: Festivals
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LFF 2020: Mangrove Review
Jonathan Gleneadie Throughout his career as an artist and filmmaker, Steve McQueen has confronted…
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LFF: By the Grace of God
Shades of grey are present in this tale of good and evil. Francois Ozon takes…
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LFF: Coup 53 Review
A bizarre execution of form blunts the undeniably potent content of Taghi Amirani’s documentary about…
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London Film Festival 2018: Pike in the Oscar race? A Private War reviewed
Of all of the writerly trades, there is a nobility associated to one branch that…
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London Film Festival 2018: They Shall Not Grow Old – Peter Jackson’s finest hour?
There might be mutterings of mild, but respectful indifference over another WWI documentary being released.…
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London Film Festival 2018: Dano’s Delight. Directorial debut Wildlife steers standout performances from Mulligan and Gyllenhaal
Have we not been here before? The stolid, oppressive climate of the 1950s is surely…
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London Film Festival 2018: Is Steve McQueen the most misanthropic filmmaker at work today? Widows reviewed.
Widows is something of a stylistic gear change for a British filmmaker whose career has…
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Venice Film Festival 2018: First Man review – mission accomplished but a bumpy ride
As of 2018, he is still only thirty-three. Yes, thirty-three. Following on the heels of…
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EIFF 2018 Round Up – The Return / The Parting Glass / Calibre
The Return Blending documentary & drama is fraught with risk. Often it ends with…
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Lucca Film Festival 2018 – Anton Corbijn talks Kurt Cobain, whilst Martin Freeman talks ‘Ghost Stories’ and much more
From quietly inauspicious beginnings back in the mid-noughties, the idyllic Italian city of Lucca –…