From the London Film Festival 2017: ‘Battle of the Sexes’
Battle of the Sexes recounts the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell). The exhibition match gained importance...
Author: Paul Salt
From the London Film Festival 2017: ‘Wonderstruck’ Review
On the second day of the London Film Festival we had Wonderstruck, a new family film by Carol director Todd Haynes. In attendance at the...
From the London Film Festival: Mudbound
Mudbound is the new Netflix original movie, and yet another jab at any critic who believes the streaming service is unable to make compelling and...
From the London Film Festival: Wrath of Silence Review
A young boy is herding his sheep in the mountains in China. When he fails to return home, his mute father goes looking for him....
From the London Film Festival: A Fantastic Woman, Roller Dreams and The Summit
‘A Fantastic Woman’ A young woman named Marina, witnesses the dramatic death of her older lover. As a transgender woman she then is then forced...
Andy Serkis’s ‘Breathe’ is Sincere, Crowd-pleasing and a Bit Conventional
Today is the first day of the London Film Festival! I was invited to attend a screening of the Opening Night Gala ahead of its...
From the London Film Festival: 1%, Lean on Pete and Foxtrot
‘1%’ 1% is about large men in leather jackets with big beards, but also big emotions?! The film involves a biker gang whose president has...
‘Mother!’ Review: Aronofsky’s Latest Confounds and Compells
Mother! is the new film by the director of Black Swan. For most of the film’s runtime that felt like Darren Aronofsky’s most pertinent credit....
From the London Film Festival: ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ Review
Late one night in Tunisia, a girl leaves a party with a man. Sometime later the girl is raped by two police officers whilst the...
Dolores Claiborne: The Hidden Gem of Stephen King Adaptations?
Kathy Bates appeared in two Stephen King adaptations in the early nineties and although she won her Oscar for Misery, she insists that her preferred...