“Someone told me a quote about ‘being comfortable being uncomfortable’ and I think that was the best little nugget of advice I got” says Luke Newberry, about coping with the insecurity of an actor’s life. Though he went straight from drama school to filming Quartet, directed by Dustin Hoffman, then had a real introduction to… “Dusty & Me” Star Luke Newberry On Fitting In, Flares & “In The Flesh” Read More
The Miseducation Of Cameron Post 3.5 stars
From trying to make teenagers “pray the gay away” to encouraging them to work out to Blessercise videos (imagine a Jane Fonda-esque aerobics queen teaming up with Billy Graham) the brother and sister behind gay conversion centre God’s Promise will do anything to suppress their charges’ sexualities. This is a movie set in 1993, though… The Miseducation Of Cameron Post Read More
Bliss! 4 stars
Bliss! is an assured and well-judged feature debut from director Rita Osei – an uplifting family film but an unsentimental one, and a movie that young girls can call their own. Searching Norway for a blond man nicknamed The Viking was never going to be easy. But it shows how deep teenage Tash’s need for… Bliss! Read More
Lady Bird – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 3 stars
This is my first video review since getting Daisy the puppy (yes named for John Wick), so if there’s any whining, for once it’s not me. Click here for the full Lady Bird review
Lady Bird 3 stars
Maybe it’s my age – perhaps there’s a point at which one stops identifying with the irritating daughter and starts nodding along sagely with the irritating mum – but Lady Bird isn’t a film that grabbed me. Naturally, being a woman, after all the acclaim it’s received I finished watching it thinking “is it me?… Lady Bird Read More
Princess Cyd 5 stars
Once upon a time, aged 17, I went for an interview at one of our better redbrick universities – to study English, no less – and confidently told the don in front of me that I didn’t really rate Shakespeare. Reader, they rejected me. But if 16 year old Cyd were real, I hope it… Princess Cyd Read More
Call Me By Your Name – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 4.5 stars
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Call Me By Your Name 4.5 stars
Languid is a term made for Call Me By Your Name, as well-off couples and teens lounge around indulging their pleasures (food, academia, poetry, cigarettes) but meanwhile everything is happening below the surface. Literally at times, as they jump into old stone swimming pools or bring up long-lost statues from the deep of Lake Garda…. Call Me By Your Name Read More
Super Dark Times 3.5 stars
What do you do, after an afternoon with friends goes so badly wrong that someone gets killed? With the body? With the weapon? With each other? These are the questions – hard enough for your average law-abiding adult to get their head round, let alone a bunch of boys going through the high and lows… Super Dark Times Read More