A selection of our writers review and recommend their favourite horror films to add to your Halloween watch list. Check them out if you dare. Dumplings (2004) Fruit Chan’s Dumplings is […]
‘The Lighthouse’ Review
Kirese Narinesingh reviews Robert Eggers’ acclaimed new film. This review contains minor spoilers. At one point in The Lighthouse, Robert Pattinson’s forlorn, spiritually exhausted character finally kills a bothersome seagull […]
‘Our Ladies’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Editor KC Wingert reviews Michael Caton-Jones’ female-led film at BFI LFF 2019. The Scottish comedy Our Ladies made its world premiere on Friday, 4th October, as part of the BFI […]
‘Joker’ Review
Audrey Ciancioni and Margot Lumb review Todd Phillips’ divisive new take on the infamous DC villain. This review contains minor spoilers. The newly released Joker is dense in references to […]
‘Family Romance, LLC’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Milo Garner reviews Werner Herzog’s intimate new film at BFI LFF 2019. Werner Herzog has a penchant for representing the alienated. His great films of the ’70s and ’80s have […]
‘The Antenna’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Milo Garner meets Orçun Behram’s horror debut, The Antenna, at BFI LFF 2019. I met The Antenna at a party and he wouldn’t shut the fuck up. I was in the […]
‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Emma Davis reviews Ciro Guerra’s latest colonial drama. Waiting for the Barbarians follows a man called the Magistrate (Mark Rylance) over the course of a full year running the outpost […]
‘Clemency’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Editor KC Wingert reviews Chinonye Chukwu’s powerful debut. With her sophomore feature Clemency, writer-director Chinonye Chukwu made history as the first black woman to win the Grand Jury prize at […]
‘Lucky Grandma’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
KC Wingert reviews the buzzed-about dark comedy at LFF 2019. With her debut feature Lucky Grandma, a film about an elderly Chinese-American woman with a rebellious streak, writer-director Sasie Sealy […]
‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Review
Xara Zabihi Dutton reviews the highly anticipated Fast & Furious spin-off. This review contains spoilers. The moment Luke Hobbs (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson) lifted his copy of the portable Friederich […]