London Film Festival 2014: The Keeping Room
The Keeping Room The Keeping Room is an unbearably suspenseful feminist revision of the siege story, overturning our expectations by varying the power dynamics…
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London Film Festival 2014: If You Don’t I Will / Arrête Ou Je Continue
If You Don’t I Will by Mark Wilshin With some heavyweight performances from French acting stalwarts Emmanuelle Devos and Mathieu Amalric and an electrifying…
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London Film Festival 2014: A Hard Day
A Hard Day by Alexa Dalby For Police Detective Ko (Korean star Seon-gyun Lee), it’s been one of those days – and nights. Speeding…
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London Film Festival 2014: Pasolini
Pasolini by Alexa Dalby Expect darkness and fireworks from Abel Ferrara’s thought-provoking biopic (with a fabulously diverse soundtrack) of the last 24 hours in…
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’71 (2014)
★★★★☆
With an explosive performance from Jack O’Connell, Yann Demange’s ’71 leads us through the backstreets of the Troubles, quite literally.
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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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.
Ida (2013)
★★★★☆
Beautifully shot in black and white, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida leads us on a meaningful road trip into a dark night of the Holocaust, Catholicism, and jazz.
Salomé (2013)
★★★★☆
Converting a reading of Oscar Wilde’s banned play into a film, Al Pacino’s Salomé might share the credit, but brings his passion for the theatre vividly to the screen.
In Order Of Disappearance / Kraftidioten (2014)
★★★★☆
A Norwegian satire on mob warfare and Nordic habits, Hans Petter Moland’s In Order Of Disappearance is a hilarious comedy that takes us beyond ordinary scruples.
Pride (2014)
★★★★☆
Two very disparate communities forge an unexpected bond when a London gay and lesbian group supports a village of Welsh miners during the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike.
Attila Marcel (2013)
★★★★☆
A musical homage to Marcel Proust, Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel is eye-catching, genre-busting and mad as a bag of frogs. Let’s face the music and dance.
Night Moves (2013)
★★★★☆
Unrelentingly tense from start to finish, Night Moves is a superbly crafted character-driven drama that maintains its stranglehold on your anxiety from start to finish.