The Best of the Fest: Our London Film Festival Top 10
The 61st London Film Festival is finally over. Of the 241 movies shown at the festival I managed to see a measly 40. Covering a...
Author: Paul Salt
‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Review: Vince Vaughn Convinces as the Big Badass You Don’t Want to Mess With
Bone Tomahawk was a savage but highly inventive film. Writer director S. Craig Zahler has followed this horror western up with a tense and equally...
From the London Film Festival 2017 ‘Jailbreak’ Has Some of the Best Fight Scenes This Side of The Raid
Cambodia’s answer to The Raid? Actor Jean-Paul Ly revealed to us that the Cambodian film industry is very young. It’s first modern cinema opened only...
From the London Film Festival 2017: ‘Beyond the Clouds’
The first Indian film by Iranian film maker, Majid Majidi, Beyond the Clouds is a crime drama set in Mumbai. Aamir (Ishaan Khattar) is a...
From The London Film Festival 2017: ‘Grain’ is a Tarkovsky Influenced Sci-Fi in Stunning Black and White
In a post-apocalyptic thriller where a manmade grain has supplanted all other crops but is now beginning to fail, a lone scientist leaves the safety...
‘Call Me By Your Name’ is Like Going on a Perfect Vacation, with Added Homoeroticism
Elio (Timothée Chalamet) lives an idyllic existence living with his family in their villa in rural Northern Italy. When one of his father’s students, Oliver...
From the London Film Festival: ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’ is a Bone Crunchingly Violent Prison Drama
Life in a Thai prison is hellish in A Prayer Before Dawn. Recounting the real life experiences of Billy Moore, a young man is sent...
From the London Film Festival 2017: ‘The Hungry’ Review
The Hungry is a modern retelling of Titus Andronicas set in India. The rival generals have been replaced by two families of business men and...
‘Lucky’ Gives Harry Dean Stanton the Swan-song He Deserves
Lucky is the second and tragically final time that Harry Dean Stanton took a lead role in a film, after Wim Wender’s 1984 masterpiece Paris,...
From the London Film Festival: ‘Pickups’ Starring a Maybe Murderous Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen plays Aiden, a fairly successful actor who is frequently recognised on the streets from his television and movie roles. He is approached by...