‘Arcadia’ is a Hypnotic Trawl Through British Occultism
Arcadia is an experimental film that uses stock footage from BFI archives to tell a story about the English countryside. We have early scenes of...
Tag: The London Film Festival
‘Funny Cow’ Review: Maxine Peake Triumphs in this Bleakly Hilarious Slice of Northern Comedy
Funny Cow is most definitely a dark comedy. The film tells the story of “Funny Cow” a woman who has a funny bone instead of...
‘Thoroughbreds’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy Stars in this Gorgeous Tale of Misfits and Murder
“Empathy isn’t exactly your strong suit. But you’re great in other ways.” Former best friends Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Amanda (Olivia Cooke) are reunited after...
Paco Plaza’s ‘Veronica’ is an Entertaining Supernatural Fright-fest
During a solar eclipse, three teenage girls conduct a séance with a Ouija board. The séance goes wrong and the girls run away scared. One...
From the London Film Festival 2017: ‘Blade of the Immortal’ Review
Taskeshi Miike made a rare London appearance today at the festival to introduce his 100th film, though he attests that he didn’t realise it was...
‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ is Hilarious, Spine-tingling and Utterly Gripping.
The less you know about what actually happens in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the richer your experience of the first act will be....
’78/52′ Gets Right to the Bloody Heart of Hitchcock’s Classic Shower Scene
78 setups for 52 shots. That’s what comprises the infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and the title of this new documentary about the...
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...
‘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...
‘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...