It’s festival season! The FilmSoc blog is covering the 75th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September), diving into the myriad of films and events on offer to […]
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‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Review
Bori Bernat takes a look at the newest entry into the Mission Impossible franchise. Mission: Impossible seems to be the franchise that just doesn’t want to die. Tom Cruise as […]
‘Cold War’ Review
Milo Garner reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cannes-winning romance. If Ida was once considered the announcement of a new voice in the tradition of grimly austere European arthouse, Paweł Pawlikowski seems set […]
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Review
Bori Bernat reviews the latest feature on Marvel’s smallest superhero. One of 2015’s most unexpected feel-good films was Ant-Man. Featuring a hero capable of shrinking to the size of an […]
‘Incredibles 2’ Review
Srishti Chakraborty reviews Pixar’s much anticipated sequel to a childhood favourite. While I might not remember the first time I ever watched Pixar’s The Incredibles, I remember all the other times […]
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Review
Milo Garner critiques the franchise spin-off. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the exact film so many feared would come out of Disney’s Lucasfilm buyout. An absolute disaster it ain’t, but […]
‘First Reformed’ Review
Milo Garner reviews Schrader’s drama thriller. Paul Schrader has always been a director influenced by the high arts of cinema, though a cursory browse of his filmography might initially belie […]
‘Filmworker’ Review
Nick Mastrini reviews the documentary revealing the fascinating career of Kubrick’s right-hand-man. Tony Zierra’s Filmworker is a documentary that celebrates the hidden craftspeople of filmmaking by exhibiting the career of […]
‘Lean on Pete’ Review
Liam Donovan takes a look at Andrew Haigh’s coming of age drama. Lean on Pete, the latest from Weekend and 45 Years director Andrew Haigh, proceeds at a trot rather […]
‘A Quiet Place’ Review
Raphael Duhamel reviews John Krasinski’s well-received supernatural horror. “IT’S SOUND!” screams a newspaper headline, shown in the first act of A Quiet Place, and serving as an appropriate and concise […]