LFF14 Laugh reviews: “Dear White People”, “Wild Tales”, “Listen Up Philip”,...
Films reviewed: “1001 Grams”, “Appropriate Behaviour”, “Dear White People”, “Excuse My French”, “If You Don’t, I Will”, “Land Ho!”, “Listen Up Philip” (pictured above), “The Mule”, “Ping Pong Summer”...
View ArticleLFF14 Cult & Sonic reviews: “Eden”, “Tokyo Tribe”, “Björk: Biophilia Live”,...
Films reviewed: “Björk: Biophilia Live”, “Eden” (pictured above), “In Darkness We Fall”, “The Man in the Orange Jacket”, “Spring”, “Tokyo Tribe”, “The Town That Dreaded Sundown” and “When Animals...
View ArticleLFF14 Dare reviews: “Mommy”, “Goodbye to Language 3D”, “Hard to Be a God”,...
Films reviewed: “Goodbye to Language 3D”, “Hard to Be a God”, “Metamorphoses”, “Mommy” (pictured above), “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely” and “White Bird in a Blizzard”. London Film Festival 2014 was...
View ArticleLFF14 Official Competition reviews: “The Duke of Burgundy”, “Phoenix”,...
Films reviewed: “Dearest”, “The Duke of Burgundy”, “The Falling”, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” (pictured above), “Leviathan”, “The New Girlfriend”, “Phoenix” and “Son of a Gun”. London Film...
View ArticleLFF14 Gala reviews: “Whiplash”, “The Imitation Game”, “Men, Women &...
Films reviewed: “Foxcatcher”, “Fury”, “The Imitation Game”, “Men, Women & Children”, “Mr. Turner”, “Testament of Youth” and “Whiplash” (pictured above). London Film Festival 2014 was split into...
View ArticleFilm reviews 63: “Say When”, “Nightcrawler”, “The Wind Rises”, “Adult World”...
This month: “20,000 Days on Earth”, “Adult World”, “All or Nothing”, “The Babadook”, “The Canyons”, “The Color Wheel”, “Eyes Wide Shut”, “Grand Piano”, “The Guest”, “Happy-Go-Lucky”, “Horns”, “The...
View ArticleFilm reviews 64: “Interstellar”, “Two Days, One Night”, “Paddington”,...
This month: “Begin Again”, “Benny & Jolene”, “Cuban Fury”, “Dinosaur 13”, “Fading Gigolo”, “A Good Year”, “The Grandmaster”, “Interstellar”, “A Long Way Down”, “Mauvais sang” (pictured above), “Mr....
View ArticleKenicky’s 2014 film roundup
If you don’t read this now, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life. Yes, it’s that time of year when trees start to die, and my annual film...
View ArticleFilm reviews 65: “Birdman”, “Big Eyes”, “The Theory of Everything”, “Enemy”,...
This month: “All the President’s Men”, “American Sniper”, “Big Eyes”, “Birdman”, “Claire’s Knee”, “Deep End” (pictured above), “Enemy”, “The Lunchbox”, “Margin Call”, “The State I Am In”, “The Theory...
View ArticleFilm review: “Jupiter Ascending”
Directors/Writers: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski Starring: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton Theatrical release: 6 February 2015 “I just don’t...
View ArticleFilm reviews 66: “Inherent Vice”, “Ex Machina”, “Big Hero 6”, “Kingsman: The...
This month: “Alphaville”, “Atlantic City”, “Big Hero 6”, “Black Moon”, “Bride Wars”, “Elevator to the Gallows”, “Ex Machina”, “Le feu follet”, “Inherent Vice”, “Kingsman: The Secret Service”, “Love is...
View ArticleFilm reviews 67: “It Follows”, “Catch Me Daddy”, “Cake”, “Coherence” and 8...
This week’s reviews: “Cake”, “Catch Me Daddy”, “Christmas in July”, “Coherence”, “Freaky Friday”, “Half Baked”, “Hello, I Must Be Going”, “It Follows” (pictured above), “Jerichow”, “The Mirror”,...
View ArticleBFI Flare 2015 review: “I Am Michael”
Director: Justin Kelly Writers: Justin Kelly, Benoit Denizet-Lewis (article) Starring: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts, Charlie Carver It isn’t a film festival without James Franco. BFI...
View ArticleBFI Flare 2015 reviews: “Atlántida”, “Do I Sound Gay?”, “Futuro Beach”,...
The 29th instalment of BFI Flare (formerly called BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) ran this year during 19-29 March. It was fun and a fellow audience member asked if I was an actor. Films...
View ArticleFilm reviews 68: “While We’re Young”, “Heaven Adores You”, “Force majeure”,...
This month: “Albatross”, “Boy Meets Girl” (pictured above), “Chappie”, “Dirty Hands”, “Focus”, “Force majeure”, “Grown Ups 2”, “Happy Christmas”, “Heaven Adores You”, “Hot Tub Time Machine 2”, “Jauja”,...
View ArticleFilm reviews 69: “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, “Hiroshima mon amour”, “Twin...
This week’s releases: “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, “Baisers voles”, “Gerry”, “Gold”, “Hiroshima mon amour” (pictured above), “It’s a Disaster”, “Lost River”, “The One I Love”, “Reds”, “Remains of the...
View ArticleFilm reviews 70: “Tomorrowland: A World Beyond”, “The Clouds of Sils Maria”,...
This month: “All of Me”, “CB4”, “The Clouds of Sils Maria”, “Down to Earth”, “The DUFF”, “I Think I Love My Wife”, “In Her Shoes”, “The Late Shift”, “Ned Rifle”, “Suicide Club”, “Tomorrowland: A World...
View ArticleFilm reviews 71: “Spy”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Love Exposure”, “Harmontown”...
This month: “Alps”, “Chronicle”, “Harmontown”, “Hope and Glory”, “Irrérvsible”, “Mad Max”, “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Match Factory Girl”, “Olso, August 31st”, “Paranoid...
View ArticleFilm reviews 72: “Jurassic World”, “Terminator Genisys”, “Knock Knock”, “Slow...
This month: “About Last Night”, “Above & Below”, “Astraea”, “The Beat That My Heart Skipped”, “The Better Angels”, “The Fire”, “The Green Ray”, “Hits”, “Jurassic World”, “Knock Knock”, “Life in a...
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