Widescreen Weekend 2024 Line-up Revealed!
The spectacle of the big screen has long been the unique selling point of film exhibitors hoping to draw audiences away from home media (from...
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Jen and the Film Critic Episode 9. Jurassic Park Dominion, Top Gun Maverick, Men and More!
It’s the summer blockbuster season! So what better time to talk about folk horror films Men and All My Friends Hate Me? We will also...
Jen and the Film Critic #7: The Northman, Operation Mincemeat, Benedetta and Cannes Preview!
Two of the most anticipated films of the week came out this week, but never mind, it’s time to discuss Viking revenge dramas, WW2 spy...
LFF 2021 ‘The Harder They Fall’ Review: Ambitious, Bloody and Hollow
A familiar story of retribution unfolds in the old west; a young man (Jonathan Winters) witnesses the murder of his entire family at the hands...
LFF 2021 ‘Boiling Point’ Review: Stephen Graham and Philip Barantini Cook Up a Storm
Inspired by Writer-Director Philip Barantini’s fraught experiences working for a busy restaurant, Boiling Point follows a hectic night in a London fine-dining restaurant. Head Chef Andy Jones...
Sundance London 2021 ‘Misha and the Wolves’: Overwrought Doc that Buries the Lead
In 1997 Misha Defonseca published a book recounting her extraordinary childhood experience of pursuing her parents through Nazi occupied Europe. On the verge of starvation...
Sundance London 2021 ‘Zola’ Review: Viral Twitter becomes Thrilling Cinema
In 148 tweets, Aziah “Zola” King recounted a shocking story of a stripper’s road trip gone bizarrely and dangerously wrong. Janicza Bravo now realises this...
‘Old’ Review: Shyamalan Horror Plays into Some of His Best Weaknesses
A holidaying family find themselves stuck on a beach that they find themselves unable to leave. Trapped with another family, a couple, a cagey man,...
Sundance London 2021 ‘Together Together’ Review: Sweetly Endearing Pregnancy Comedy
Feeling he is missing out and sick of waiting for the right partner to come along, Matt (Ed Helms) decides to become a single father...
‘Army of the Dead’ Review: Has Snyder rediscovered his sense of fun?
In this startlingly original tale a dirty dozen/suicide squad are assembled to infiltrate a walled off American city (think Escape from New York) to retrieve...