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 […]
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‘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 […]
‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ Review
Gwendoline Blangy reviews Quentin Tarantino’s newest film. Bloody explosions, the n-word, swearing, unlimited violence, feet-worshipping…that’s what everyone expected when Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film made its premiere at the 2019 Cannes […]
‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Editor KC Wingert reviews our first film from BFI LFF 2019. Warning: this review contains spoilers. Making its UK premiere at LFF, The Peanut Butter Falcon is a delightful dramedy […]
Today’s Extraordinary Yellow Sky and 11 Films It Reminded Us Of
FilmSoc’s Screenings Producer Sarah Saraj reflects on today’s weather phenomenon. The sky today was pretty incredible. It got a lot of us feeling like we were in a film. In […]