ARTIFICIAL REVIEW | AMAZON DROPPED IT WHILE I LEFT THE CINEMA IN TEARS
Luca Guadagnino transforms OpenAI’s chaotic leadership crisis into one of the most entertaining and emotionally gripping films of the year. With extraordinary performances, unpredictable humour. Artificial left me sitting in the cinema long after the credits rolled.
CLUB KID REVIEW | A STUNNING DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Written and directed by Jordan Firstman, his feature directorial debut, CLUB KID is garnering all sorts of critical acclaim from those who have seen it, but is it one that should be on your radar? CLUB KID follows Peter, a club promoter in New York City, who has his life turned upside down when the […]
Frank And Percy Review | CHEMISTRY SAVES THIS FILM
*Spoiler Warning* The film ‘Frank and Percy’ centers on these two characters, can you guess their name? During their dog walks on Hampstead Heath, which is only an hour from me, two older men Frank (Roger Allam) and Percy (Ian Mckellan) meet and find their conversations about everyday aches and weather growing into an unexpected […]
BEHEMOTH! REVIEW | GREATLY ELEVATED BY ITS SCORE… BUT
Written and directed by Tony Gilroy, of ANDOR fame, it’s his first movie since THE BOURNE LEGACY in 2012, taking a 14 year break from movies, how exactly does BEHEMOTH! fare? To begin with, the score, composed by THE BEHEMOTH! COLLECTIVE, a group of nine talented composers, including Michael Giacchino, Michael Abels and Emily Bear, […]
WILDWOOD REVIEW | A FULLY REALISED STOP-MOTION EPIC!
Based on the novel of the same name, written by Colin Meloy, Travis Knight’s WILDWOOD comes 7 years after LAIKA’s MISSING LINK. After being in the works for 16 years, does WILDWOOD live up to expectations? Yep. Review Done. I kid, but WILDWOOD is stop motion filmmaking at its very best, there are sequences in […]
ISABEL REVIEW | GREAT COMEDY, OKAY-ISH DRAMA
Written and directed by Gabe Klinger, also written by Marina Person. ‘Isabel’ creates a great comedy and an okay-ish drama that focuses on a woman called Isabel (Marina Person) who is struggling to produce her dream of her own wine bar away from her controlling boss. Lets begin with a cold hard fact. This is […]
THE FOX REVIEW | ABSURDLY CHAOTIC?!
Written and directed by Dario Russo THE FOX helms a fairly bizarre plot centred around a fox hunter who runs into a talking fox who begs for her life by offering to turn his fiancé into the perfect woman. To begin with, the puppetry work on the foxes, while it isn’t shown off too much, […]
WICKER REVIEW | IS IT AS FREAKY AS IT COULD BE?
Following a lonely fisherwoman who commissions a local basket weaver to make her a husband, with such a quirky premise, inspired by the short story THE WICKER HUSBAND by Ursula Wills-Jones, how does the movie fare? Beginning with the performances, Olivia Colman isn’t a stranger to an odd premise and she once again delivers, proving […]
THE BEST LINEUP IN AGES? | 70th BFI London Film Festival Programme Highlights
The 70th BFI London Film Festival is set to begin in 2 weeks time, the lineup for which is probably the best the festival has seen in some years, from major blockbusters such as GODZILLA: MINUS ZERO to insane animated efforts like WILDWOOD. With this in mind, let’s run through some of the highlights ahead […]
