BFI Flare ‘Vita and Virginia’ Review: Transgressive Period Love Story
Vita Sackville-West is a struggling writer who finds herself constricted by the expectations that come with status and family. She becomes enamored with a fellow...
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Jimmy Dean Interview: Short Films, Vampires, and Adolescence
Jimmy Dean discusses his latest short film about a young woman who’s vampirism is the least of her worries. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/user37576817 What interested...
‘Captain Marvel’ Review: It Won’t Change The World, But It Will Entertain It
Vers is a human inhabitant of the Kree homeworld. She is a member of an elite military unit called Starforce where she is mentored by...
‘Alita Battle Angel’ Review: Unoriginal Parts, More Assembly Required
In a dystopian future (one of those orange shabby chiq ones with robots) Dr Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) finds an abandoned robot body with a...
“The Lego Movie 2” Review: Just Another Brick In The Wall?
Five years after the invasion of the beings from the planet Duplo, Emmett (Chris Pratt), Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), and the rest of the Lego gang...
‘V’ Short Film Review: Affecting and Brooding Modern Vampire Story
Minnie (Synnøve Karlsen) is a teenage vampire. She spends her days in her small flat, drinking blood from a bottle, occasionally venturing out to do...
‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Shines In This Moving But Unbalanced Historical Epic
Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) returns to her native Scotland from France. She is recently widowed and must now assume the crown of a land that...
‘Glass’ Review: Shyamalan’s Superhero Slog
Super strong vigilante David Dunn, criminal mastermind Elijah Price and super-powered sociopath The Horde, find themselves locked away in the same mental health facility, under the...
‘Bumblebee’ Review: The First Decent Transformers Film, But Is That Enough?
Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld) is your typical 80s girl. She has a punk hairstyle and posters for all the significant cultural icons of the preceding...
‘Destroyer’ Review: Kidman Is Savage In This Brutal Tale Of Revenge And Regret
Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is a detective in the LAPD who mercilessly tracks down the members of the bank robbing gang she formerly infiltrated. Desperate...