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The Nightingale (Sundance London) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th August 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

It’s an easy get-out, to anoint a movie “a hard watch”, but Jennifer Kent’s period revenge thriller The Nightingale is just that. I went in with no other information beyond this being a follow up to The Babadook, a horror film about a menaced, powerless child but really about loneliness and grief. This is, in… The Nightingale (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: 19th century, Aborigines, australia, british, indigenous people, tasmania

The Farewell (Sundance London) 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

21st July 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

The Farewell is writer-director Lulu Wang’s second feature, and it’s a funny, bracing, tender and profoundly moving film. “Sexy but poor” is how Billi (Awkwafina) describes herself half-jokingly to her mother, visiting her parents while trying to avoid the apartment she always owes rent on. Her parents also live in New York, the whole family… The Farewell (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: american-chinese, china, death, family

Apollo 11 (Sundance London) 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

30th June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

The words that sum up Apollo 11 hark back to magic – yes, this paen to science (technology, maths, physics) and humanity (bravery, a compulsion to explore, even teamwork) is spellbinding, entrancing, mesmerising. An extraordinary event deserves an extraordinary movie documenting it, and Apollo 11 is certainly that. In a modern era where there are few… Apollo 11 (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: 1969, buzz aldrin, michael collins, moon landings, neil armstrong, space, space race

Canada Now launches UK film tour – the best of new Canadian cinema across the country

27th June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Canada Day on 1 July sees the first day of the CANADA NOW tour, which takes the films from the London CANADA NOW event in April and makes them available to independent cinemas across the UK. The tour will launch with a special one-off masterclass including director Yan Giroux (For Those Who Don’t Read Me,… Canada Now launches UK film tour – the best of new Canadian cinema across the country Read More

Filed Under: Canada Now Tagged With: canada, canada now, canadian cinema

“Sometimes, Always, Never” director Carl Hunter on mods, muzjiks and his Merseyside movie

12th June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

“Scrabble as a motif, order can be created, things can be put right. But you’ve just got to know the rules and be willing to play.” Carl Hunter, director of Sometimes, Always, Never. Film director Carl Hunter used to play in Liverpool band The Farm, part of the soundtrack to my 90s youth – and he was in a… “Sometimes, Always, Never” director Carl Hunter on mods, muzjiks and his Merseyside movie Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, London Film Festival, Support Indie Film Tagged With: bill nighy, carl hunter, edwin collins, frank cottrell boyce, Gregory Crewdson, liverpool, merseyside, scrabble, sometimes always never

The Last Tree (Sundance London) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

7th June 2019 by Sarah 1 Comment

Shola Amoo’s second feature is an accomplished and absorbing film, following the teenage Femi as he struggles to create his own identity and sense of place from disparate memories, experiences and expectations. Little confusions, which for teenagers can still loom large, are woven into far more serious choices. There’s a sweet scene when Femi, walking along… The Last Tree (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: families, identity, london, nigeria, race

Animals (Sundance London) 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

It’s rare to find a film that combines such huge respect for the gorgeousness and grubbiness of female friendship with such dizzying disrespect for the human liver. They’re connected in this film of course, though I still feel drained just thinking about the sheer quantities of white wine consumed by best friends Laura and Tyler… Animals (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: drink, dublin, friendship, parties, relationships

Late Night (Sundance London) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

1st June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

When late night chat show host Katherine Newbury is told she’s being replaced, she finally has to face her writers’ room. Literally, as most of the men in there have never even seen her in the flesh before. Those men are all white, and privileged, though not as hirsute as I was expecting. They’re lazy,… Late Night (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: chat show, diversity, race, sexism, tv, women

Corporate Animals (Sundance London) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

31st May 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Imagine The Descent crossed with The Office, but nastier. That’s Corporate Animals. It’s uneven, but often brutally hilarious, as horrible boss Lucy (Demi Moore) forces her key employees into a team-building exercise exploring caves in New Mexico. Always wanting to push her employees on to greatness, even if they don’t want to go, Lucy declines… Corporate Animals (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: bosses, business, caving, new mexico, team building

Giant Little Ones (Canada Now Film Festival) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th May 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I’m baffled by modern adolescence, and can hardly believe myself that back in the ’80s mine was modern too. Luckily Keith Behrman’s film leaves me with a sense of hope for my own children’s upcoming teen years, which may have more in common with my own than I feared. In Giant Little Ones Behrman, who… Giant Little Ones (Canada Now Film Festival) Read More

Filed Under: Canada Now, Film Festivals, Film Reviews Tagged With: divorce, friendship, sexuality, teenagers

Canada Now Film Festival – where, when, what to watch

16th April 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Bringing the best of new Canadian cinema to the United Kingdom, the annual Canada Now Film Festival returns with a London showcase next week, from 24th to 28th April 2019, followed by a UK cinema tour  from 1 July. The festival opens with the London premiere of Keith Behrman’s Giant Little Ones, a  powerful coming-of-age drama starring… Canada Now Film Festival – where, when, what to watch Read More

Filed Under: Film Festivals Tagged With: canada now, canadian cinema, canadian film, film festival

72nd Cannes Film Festival pays tribute to Agnès Varda with official poster

15th April 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

“Like a manifesto, this still photo from the set sums up everything about Agnès Varda: her passion, aplomb, and mischievousness.” Filmmaker Agnès Varda, pioneer of the French new wave movement, died last month aged 90 – and the official poster for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, released today, pays tribute to her. The image is… 72nd Cannes Film Festival pays tribute to Agnès Varda with official poster Read More

Filed Under: Film Articles, Film Festivals, Posters Tagged With: agnes varda, cannes, cannes film festival, cannes poster

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