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...
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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...
‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Review: Has the Franchise Run Out of Ideas?
Paranormal Detectives Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) tackle another case of demonic possession. A young man is charged with murder but...
We See Saw #5: Saw 5 (2007)
It’s finally the next day in Sawville! A whole new day of ridiculous acting, ridiculous plot twists and some gory traps! But how does it...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Rurangi’ Review: A Trans Man’s Long Journey Home
Ten years ago Caz left the small dairy town he grew up in. Subsequently he has transitioned and is now a trans activist. Nobody in...