Oct 31, 2022
Halloween Ends
It’s so much better than Halloween Kills, but that’s really just an indicator as to how much room there is above Halloween Kills to be so...
Oct 31, 2022
Sleepy Hollow
We nearly ended up with something very different for this literary adaptation. I have to admit I’m not familiar with the source material,...
Oct 28, 2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
There’s a really nice quote from Edward Yang, and I could Google it to get it accurate but I’m not going to because I think it’s more...
Oct 24, 2022
Halloween
As with most horror films that gain any kind of notoriety, Halloween isn’t without its own folklore and mythology around the inception...
Oct 21, 2022
An American Werewolf in London
It’s probably of no surprise that part of this was filmed in London, and that a prominent character is a werewolf. That said, I’ll take...
Oct 15, 2022
Decision to Leave
There’s a certain flair about this that makes it unmistakable as a Park Chan-wook film, but it also had something a bit more to it than...
Oct 14, 2022
Butterfly Vision
This is a very thoughtful, nuanced take on how war impacts ordinary people. It doesn’t make excuses for them but it shows how it can turn...
Oct 13, 2022
Pretty Red Dress
Firstly I think some credit needs to go towards Alexandra Burke. Her performance was very good, but more so because as someone with her...
Oct 13, 2022
Know Your Place
This was a really cool experience. Its very new and fresh in its themes and ideas, but it also manages to do something really cool...
Oct 13, 2022
Women Talking
The story is a very interesting, very necessary narrative around gender roles, isolation, abuse and so much more. The set up is almost so...
Oct 13, 2022
Unicorn Wars
This was described as a cross between Apocalypse Now, Bambi and The Bible by its producer. The joke being that they’re three of the...
Oct 12, 2022
Triangle of Sadness
I’m not sure what I expected from the trailer, but whatever it was, this gave so much more. To say it has any kind of subtlety would be a...
Oct 12, 2022
The Whale
Well firstly, Brendan Fraser genuinely is as good as you’ve heard from everyone else since this started playing at festivals. He plays an...
Oct 11, 2022
The African Desperate
This film is a testament to the idea that anything can look good in a trailer. I went in with high hopes, but I think what I’ve found is...
Oct 11, 2022
Living
Underneath it all, there is quite a good, sweet film here. The problem is, that film already exists – it’s called Ikiru and it’s much...
Oct 10, 2022
The Son
I wondered if perhaps I went into this with my expectations tempered just a little too high, but the more I think about it the worse it...
Oct 10, 2022
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Alejandro G. Iñárritu came to the screening I went to for the London Film Festival. He did an introduction that basically explained that...
Oct 8, 2022
Sick of Myself
This is a very complex film in that it manages to create a number of opposing feelings all very close to one another. Every time I...
Oct 6, 2022
Joyland
Usually I like to give a brief overview of the narrative of a film, what I thought worked well and what I thought didn’t. I worry that if...
Oct 3, 2022
Flux Gourmet
I think I’m still wrestling with my thoughts and feelings on this one to a certain extent, but I think in a way that’s how the film wants...