Film reviews 84: “Pete’s Dragon”, “Suicide Squad”, “The Shallows”, “War...
This month: “The Big Chill”, “Bound”, “Café Society”, “Captain Fantastic”, “Carlito’s Way”, “Cold Fever”, “Concussion”, “Dans le Maison”, “De Palma”, “Departure”, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”, “Fear,...
View ArticleLFF16 Journey & Thrill reviews: “Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey”, “Two Lovers...
Films reviewed: “Bleed for This”, “The Ghoul”, “Kills on Wheels”, “Mimosas”, “The Ornithologist”, “Paterson”, “Two Lovers and a Bear”, “Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey” and “The Wailing” (pictured...
View ArticleLFF16 Cult & Dare reviews: “The Handmaiden”, “Wild”, “Scarred Hearts”, “The...
Films reviewed: “The Autopsy of Jane Doe”, “Blue Velvet Revisited”, “Christine”, “The Death of Louis XIV”, “The Handmaiden”, “I Am Not a Serial Killer”, “Into the Forest”, “King Cobra”, “Lake Bodom”,...
View ArticleLFF16 Laugh & Love reviews: “Aquarius”, “Don’t Think Twice”, “Women Who...
“Aquarius”, “Barakah Meets Baraka”, “Don’t Think Twice”, “Ethel & Ernest”, “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki”, “Heal the Living” (pictured above), “Hermia & Helena”, “Houston, We Have...
View ArticleLFF16 Debate, Documentary & First Feature Competition reviews: “Nocturama”,...
Films reviewed: “A Date for Mad Mary”, “David Lynch: The Art Life”, “Divines”, “Graduation”, “The Levelling”, “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World”, “My Life as a Courgette”, “Nocturama”...
View ArticleLFF16 Official Competition reviews: “Certain Women”, “Frantz”, “Brimstone”,...
Films reviewed: “Brimstone”, “Certain Women” (pictured above), “Elle”, “Frantz”, “Goldstone”, “Layla M.”, “Moonlight” and “Your Name”. London Film Festival 2016 was split into strands including Cult,...
View ArticleLFF16 Gala reviews: “American Honey”, “Lion”, “La La Land”, “Their Finest”,...
“American Honey” (pictured above), “Arrival”, “Free Fire”, “La La Land”, “Lion”, “Manchester by the Sea”, “A Monster Calls”, “Nocturnal Animals”, “Sully”, “Their Finest” and “A United Kingdom”. London...
View ArticleKenicky’s 2016 film roundup
This year, I’ve seen so many astonishing, revelatory films: Toni Erdmann, Moonlight, Scarred Hearts, Personal Shopper, Manchester by the Sea… but they won’t reach UK cinemas until 2017. So, here are...
View ArticleFilm reviews 85: “20th Century Women”, “The Edge of Seventeen”, “Why Him?”,...
This month: “Beginners”, “The Birds”, “Céline and Julie Go Boating”, “Cold Water”, “The Edge of Seventeen”, “8 Women” (pictured above), “Fanny and Alexander”, “Home”, “Inside Man”, “Irma Vep”,...
View ArticleFilm reviews 86: “Get Out”, “Ghost in the Shell”, “Logan”, “Hacksaw Ridge”,...
This month: “About Schmidt”, “L’Auberge Espagnole” (pictured above), “Basic Instinct”, “Breaking Away”, “Chocolat”, “Disorder”, “The Founder”, “Get Out”, “Ghost in the Shell” (1995), “Ghost in the...
View ArticleFilm reviews 87: “Alien: Covenant”, “Snatched”, “Sandy Wexler”, “Rules Don’t...
This month: “Alien: Covenant”, “Bed and Board”, “La Ciénaga”, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”, “The Discovery” “The Final Girls”, “Ghost”, “Good Kids”, “The Man Without a Past”, “Mindhorn”, “Rules Don’t...
View ArticleFilm reviews 88: “Baby Driver”, “After the Storm”, “Colossal”, “It Comes at...
This month: “After the Storm”, “Baby Driver”, “Barking Dogs Never Bite”, “Berlin Syndrome”, “Bushwick”, “La Cérémonie” (pictured above), “Colossal”, “Gifted”, “It Comes at Night”, “Marjorie Prime”,...
View ArticleFilm reviews 89: “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, “The Mummy”, “Dunkirk”, “Song to...
This month: “The Aviator’s Wife”, “Day Night Day Night”, “Dunkirk”, “The House”, “Mikey and Nicky”, “The Mummy”, “Mysterious Object at Noon”, “Song to Song”, “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, “Take Care of...
View ArticleFilm reviews 90: “Death Note”, “Logan Lucky”, “Rough Night”, “A Cure for...
This month: “The American Friend” (pictured above), “The Big Sick”, “A Cure for Wellness”, “A Ghost Story”, “The Heartbreak Kid” (1972), “The Heartbreak Kid” (2007), “Hello, My Name is Doris, “Hounds...
View ArticleLFF17 Journey, Debate & Thrill reviews: “Araby”, “Good Time”, “Promised...
Films reviewed: “Araby” (pictured above), “Gemini”, “Good Time”, “Lucky”, “Promised Land”, “Racer and the Jailbird”, “The Rider”, “Sheikh Jackson”, “Small Town Crime”, “Spoor”, and “Wonderstruck”....
View ArticleLFF17 Laugh & Love reviews: “Stronger”, “On Chesil Beach”, “Let the Sunshine...
“Anchor and Hope”, “The Boy Downstairs”, “Brigsby Bear”, “Funny Cow”, “Golden Exits”, “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, “Ingrid Goes West”, “King of Peking”, “Let the Sunshine In”, “The Meyerowitz...
View ArticleLFF17 Cult, Dare & First Feature reviews: “Brawl in Cell Block 99”,...
Films reviewed: “Amant Double”, “Apostasy”, “Ava”, “Brawl in Cell Block 99”, “Beach Rats”, “The Cakemaker”, “Casting”, “Columbus”, “The Endless”, “Have a Nice Day”, “Jeune femme”, “Thelma”, “Tiger...
View ArticleLFF17 Official Competition, Gala & Special Presentation reviews:...
Films reviewed: “Battle of the Sexes”, “The Breadwinner”, “Breathe”, “Call Me By Your Name”, “Downsizing”, “A Fantastic Woman”, “The Florida Project”, “Good Manners” (pictured above), “The Killing of a...
View ArticleKenicky’s 2017 film roundup
It’s April 3, which can only mean one thing… In 2011’s roundup I swam through cold weather to Bill Callahan’s favourite island. In 2012’s roundup Joaquin set the Instagram filter to “Kenicky”. In...
View ArticleFilm reviews 91: “Game Night”, “A Quiet Place”, “Unsane”, “Ready Player One”,...
This month: “All That Jazz” (pictured above), “Beats Being Dead”, “The Belko Experiment”, “Blissfully Yours”, “Blockers”, “Les Diaboliques”, “Game Night”, “Half Nelson”, “Heaven”, “Heaven Knows What”,...
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