Ethel and Ernest (2016)
A beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. It’s a tribute to…
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BFI LFF 2016: SPACESHIP (2016)
Spaceship is a dreamlike, semi-psychedlic, free-flowing story of teenage cyber goths and alien abductions. Spaceship CAUTION: Here be spoilers A spaceship is what gets…
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BFI LFF 2016: The Levelling (2016)
The Levelling is an unusual, well-made British first feature from writer and director Hope Dickson Leach. The Levellling CAUTION: Here be spoilers Set on…
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BFI LFF 2016: FREE FIRE (2016)
Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is a Tarantino-esque splatterfest of bullets and bad jokes. Free Fire CAUTION: Here be spoilers In a warehouse in Boston…
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BFI LFF 2016: Lion (2016)
Garth Davis’s Lion is a gripping, unsentimental adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s moving memoir. Film Title CAUTION: Here be spoilers Dev Patel carries the film…
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BFI LFF 2016: ETHEL AND ERNEST (2016)
A beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. Ethel and Ernest CAUTION:…
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BFI LFF 2016: PREVENGE (2016)
Prevenge is a darkly funny directorial debut for Alice Lowe, who also stars as a pregnant serial killer. Prevenge CAUTION: Here be spoilers Alice…
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BFI LFF 2016: THEIR FINEST (2016)
★★★★☆
Danish director Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest is a very British romcom.
BFI LFF 2016: A Quiet Passion (2016)
★★★★☆
A portrait of the poet as a young revolutionary, Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion sees a fiercely independent woman martyred.
BFI LFF 2016 OPENING GALA: A UNITED KINGDOM (2016)
★★★★☆
The first film by a black woman director to screen as the Opening Gala of the BFI London Film Festival, Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom evokes a powerful interracial love story that threatened the British Empire.
60th BFI London Film Festival (2016)
Between 5 and 16 October, the BFI London Film Festival will screen a total of 193 fiction and 52 documentary features, including 18 world…
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Under the Shadow (2016)
An original supernatural horror movie set in Iran, Under the Shadow is an impressive debut for director Babak Anvari. Under the Shadow CAUTION: Here…
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The Brother (2016)
Slick, glossy, visually exciting, Ryan Bonder’s The Brother is an attention-grabbing thriller. The Brother CAUTION: Here be spoilers The Brother is a story of…
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Anthropoid (2016)
Sean Ellis’s gripping and gruesome Second World War thriller shines a light on a little-known true story of heroism. Anthropoid CAUTION: Here be spoilers…
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