London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash
Ferocious, electric and unrelenting, Simmons and Teller never miss a beat in Damien Chazelle’s phenomenal second feature. Whiplash by Dave O’Flanagan Boasting not one,…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Salvation
An entertaining modern Western with the magnetic Mads Mikkelsen, The Salvation is gorgeous to look at – but as hollow as a Ten-gallon hat.
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London Film Festival 2014: Dearest
Focusing on child abduction in China, Dearest takes a compelling and important issue and stifles its impact with overwrought and unrestrained melodrama.
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London Film Festival 2014: Wild Tales / Relatos Salvajes
An excellent Argentine selection box of intricate short stories; crazy, caustic, and ingeniously clever.
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London Film Festival 2014: The Possibilities Are Endless
Life-affirming and utterly moving, this account of Scottish music icon Edwyn Collins is a truly remarkable achievement in filmmaking.
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London Film Festival 2014: The Drop
A superb performance from Tom Hardy and a cast of intriguing supporting characters saves this often rudderless New York based crime drama from the drop.
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London Film Festival 2014: Maidan
Coupled with an uncompromisingly bloated running time, Sergei Loznitsa’s sedate style of shooting renders this account of civil unrest in Kiev disengaging.
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London Film Festival 2014: Dukhtar
Dukhtar by Dave O’Flanagan The prospect of Afia Nathaniel’s directorial debut was an intriguing one in light of Pakistan’s slow but steady shuffle in…
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London Film Festival 2014: Men, Women And Children
Jason Reitman’s incisive slice of modern suburbia is a sad, humourous and painfully relevant snapshot of our subservience to social media.
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London Film Festival 2014: The Duke Of Burgundy
The Duke Of Burgundy Burgundy Is The Sadomasochistic Colour by Dave O’Flanagan Reading-born director Peter Strickland’s vintage erotic melodrama is a beguiling oddity; an…
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London Film Festival 2014: Excuse My French
Excuse My French by Dave O’Flanagan It’s a wonderfully positive testament to director Amr Salama, and the Egyptian film industry, that creativity has somehow…
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London Film Festival 2014: Camp X-Ray
Powerful and moving with excellent performances from Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi, Camp X-Ray puts a human face on the detainees of Guantanamo Bay.
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ARCHIVE: Le Jour Se Lève/Daybreak (1939)
★★★★☆
A fatalistic tale of love and jealousy, Marcel Carné’s Le Jour Se Lève is a captivating and tragically romantic French classic.
Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
★★☆☆☆
An unsympathetic protagonist is the most damning aspect of Rowan Joffé’s formulaic and sedate adaptation of the best-selling novel.