My BAFTA predictions: BEST PICTURE Will win: Three Billboards Should winl: CMBYN — Linda Marric 🇪🇺 (@Linda_Marric) February 18, 2018
Read MoreFilm Review: The Shape of Water
Reviewed by Rachael Kaines With The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro has finally returned to form. A charming and beautiful romance as well as a tale (tail) of underdogs (fish) of all shapes and sizes. del Toro manages to represent many marginalised aspects of society in the setting of America during the cold war (even a group we never knew were marginalised — fish men).
Read MoreDVD Release: Brimstone
Reviewed by Nadia Bee Out of all the imaginable Wild Wests, director Martin Koolhaven has conjured up, in Brimstone, a world where fear and resistance meet overwhelming sadism. Scenes of intolerable cruelty unfold in visually sumptuous settings, with music -by Junkie XL – to match. Meanwhile the lives those scenes depict are harsh, dour, and almost entirely without respite. This is a grand film, with an ambitious story and an…
Read MoreFilm Review: Loveless
Reviewed by Lee Hill For international audiences, Andrey Zvyagintsev is THE Russian director in the way that Andrei Tarkovsky was in the 80s. Since his astonishing debut in 2003, The Return, he has found a way to combine portraits of individuals in crisis with wider examinations of Russia’s inability to move away from totalitarianism. In his last two films, Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014), relationships between men and women are…
Read MoreFilm Review: The Mercy
Reviewed by Lee Hill In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, family man, struggling inventor and amateur sailor, was determined to boost the profile of a navigation device too ahead of its time. He decided to enter the Golden Globe, an around the world race sponsored by The Sunday Times. Despite not having sailed beyond the coast of Devon and struggling to keep his tiny company going, Crowhurst felt the risk was worth…
Read MoreFilm Review: Phantom Thread
Reviewed by Rachael Kaines Not quite the harrowing experience some might be expecting, Phantom Thread is closer to a perverse romantic comedy than a serious or dark drama. If the idea of watching people throw beautiful barbs at each other over a breakfast table sounds appealing, then Phantom Thread is your film.
Read MoreInterview: Megan Maczko On Her Role In Ninth Cloud
As The Ninth Cloud is released in the UK, lead actress Megan Maczko discusses her passion for voicing video games, working with Tom Hanks, the hazards of auditioning and the challenges of being an American living in England. Megan, you play Zena, the protagonist, In THE NINTH CLOUD. How would you describe her? Zena is a young woman living with an incredible amount of chaos in her heart, desperately seeking…
Read MoreFilm Review: Den Of Thieves
Reviewed by Freda Cooper There are two Gerard Butler films around at the moment. One sees him explaining Scottish slang. The other is Den Of Thieves. This is a movie that’s bursting to be something else. With its chases and gunfire, it fancies itself as the DeNiro/Pacino face-off, Heat (1995), but its ambitions don’t stop there. It also sees itself as something of a Sicario (2015), especially when a gun…
Read MoreFilm Releases: Weekly Round Up
A round up of this week’s new releases by our Editor Linda Marric The Maze Runner: The Death Cure The third and final instalment of this very popular dystopian trilogy sees it opening with a bang. An impressive action set piece which could rival any thriller worth its salt. The film is however sadly let down by a meandering screenplay which doesn’t seem to have got the memo that less…
Read MoreFilm Review: Native
Reviewed by Lee Hill For an independent filmmaker, a first feature, without access to the near unlimited technical and financial resources of a major production entity or studio, is always a gamble. It is one thing for a new director and company to argue that “less is more”, but another thing entirely to pull off this aesthetic if one small, but significant aspect of the project misfires. It’s no surprise…
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