Laila (1929)
2019-03-22
Fate and conscience are prominent themes in the first half of writer and director George Schnéevoigt’s silent movie adaptation ofContinue Reading
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
2019-03-21
Red herrings, blue murder, green with envy. That’s a lot of colour for the seemingly black and white case atContinue Reading
Fleabag (BBC 2016 – …) Series Two Episode One
2019-03-12
When Fleabag series one first aired back in 2016 no one could have imagined the heights it would reach. FromContinue Reading
What They Had (2019)
2019-03-03
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was moving” – except the mousyContinue Reading
Beats (2019)
2019-03-03
It would be easy and far too reductive to simply compare Beats to Human Traffic, another chemical fuelled bildungsroman setContinue Reading
Cold Pursuit (2019)
2019-03-03
Liam Neeson’s latest vehicle is a car crash. At the beginning, a nothing-to-see-here bumper scrape. By the end, a WackyContinue Reading
The Hole in the Ground (2019)
2019-03-02
There may be a gaping hole in the ground of director Lee Cronin and co-writer Stephen Shields’ debut feature, butContinue Reading
The White Crow (2019)
2019-03-01
Rudolph Nureyev was brought up in the grim Soviet town of Ufa. A chance outing to the opera at ageContinue Reading
Harry Birrell – Films of Love and War
2019-02-28
This documentary feature is made from a treasure trove of footage taken by Harry Birrell during his life. The narrationContinue Reading
Final Ascent (2019)
2019-02-28
The life of Scottish mountaineer and writer Hamish MacInnes is told in this documentary feature film by Robbie Fraser starringContinue Reading
Luz (2019)
2019-02-28
I can thank my friend for introducing me to Lost Highway a few years back. I’ve always been a fanContinue Reading
Eighth Grade (2019)
2019-02-27
“I never get the feeling of after the rollercoaster.” Eighth Grade is a film that I wish I’d had whenContinue Reading
Under the Silver Lake (2019)
2019-02-26
Under the Silver Lake feels like a machine that could run beautifully and smoothly if it wasn’t for the factContinue Reading
Mid90s (2018)
2019-02-25
I enjoyed this slice-of-working-class-California-life in the 90s from Jonah Hill. It’s a coming of age story about 13 year-old StevieContinue Reading