Mother superior
Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…
Mother superior
Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…
Metal fatigue
‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…
Metal fatigue
‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…
Sloppy seconds
Danny Boyle introduced T2 Trainspotting at the screening I attended and said that, throughout filming, he’d seen the cast looking…
Sloppy seconds
Danny Boyle introduced T2 Trainspotting at the screening I attended and said that, throughout filming, he’d seen the cast looking…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
All bark and no bite
A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…
All bark and no bite
A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…
Question time
If you were to see one film about American whistle-blower Edward Snowden — there is no law saying you have…
Question time
If you were to see one film about American whistle-blower Edward Snowden — there is no law saying you have…
You’ve lost that loving feeling
A United Kingdom is based on the greatest love story you probably didn’t have a clue about. I know I…
You’ve lost that loving feeling
A United Kingdom is based on the greatest love story you probably didn’t have a clue about. I know I…
About a boy
Indignation is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel and amazingly, for an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel —…
About a boy
Indignation is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel and amazingly, for an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel —…
Tongue twister
Arrival is a big budget sci-fi film with a smaller, more pensive, cleverer film trying to get out, which has…
Tongue twister
Arrival is a big budget sci-fi film with a smaller, more pensive, cleverer film trying to get out, which has…
Loach at his most Loach
I, Daniel Blake is a Ken Loach film about a Newcastle joiner who can’t work but faces a welfare bureaucracy…
Loach at his most Loach
I, Daniel Blake is a Ken Loach film about a Newcastle joiner who can’t work but faces a welfare bureaucracy…
Going nowhere fast – and loud
As a general rule, I would not wish to spend nearly three hours in a mini-van with young people who…
