Surviving 9/11 (documentary) ★★★
People of a certain age will remember the events that unfolded on the 11th of September 2001. Many can likelyContinue Reading
Tag: England
2021 Fantasia Film Festival: “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break”, “King Knight”
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break is the UK’s answer to Joker. The film stars TomContinue Reading
Cinematic Time Travel in Lumière and Company
What kind of films would Stanley Kubrick have made if modern CGI was at his disposal? What would Tarkovsky haveContinue Reading
2021 Long Distance Film Festival: Future
The 2021 Long Distance Film Festival concluded with ‘Future’, a category that saw disparate quarantine themes cohere to resolution. ItContinue Reading
2021 Atlanta Film Festival: “Limbo”, “Landlocked”
Today’s showcase of films from the Atlanta Film Festival suggest idleness in their titles, but rest assured the stories theyContinue Reading
The Banishing ★★★
It’s a story we’ve seen many times before: A white family moves into a big, old house – obviously unawareContinue Reading
Romance and Reggae in Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen, quite simply, is an exquisite filmmaker. As an artist, he is similar to a trained fighter with knowledgeContinue Reading
The Wiley, Windy Moors: Wuthering Heights (2011)
One of my favourite passages about Wuthering Heights is in Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s when Holly Golightly quotes WutheringContinue Reading
Destructive Love and The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger explored the theme of love in so many ways in their work. Their A MatterContinue Reading
The Lovers and the Hilltop in God’s Own Country
Francis Lee‘s directorial debut opens with the dawning of the day over the Yorkshire Dales, as a small house, shrunkenContinue Reading
