This film is five and a half minutes long. There’s a penguin who can’t swim because he has a short wing. Nobody speaks but that doesn’t matter. There isn’t much detail in their faces. Sometimes you can only see their eyes but you can still tell how they are feeling. He watches his friends swimming… The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) 5 stars
The Peanut Butter Falcon infuses its message of autonomy and risk-taking with a sense of magic – as Zak, a young man with Down Syndrome who escapes his dreary, constricting care home for freedom and adventure, drifts on a raft through the stultifyingly hot river-ways of the American South with new friend Tyler and old friend… Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Ian (Short Film) Short Film 4 stars
Ian is a beautifully animated short film about a lonely little boy with cerebral palsy. He’s desperate to enjoy the local playground, but his physical difficulties are made worse by other barriers: the other children don’t understand why he seems different, and keep away from him; some of them laugh at him or are simply… Ian (Short Film) Read More
Skyscraper (3D) 3.5 stars
Warning: spoilers ahead if you don’t know how action blockbusters work. Skyscraper is one of those films that manages to combine real thrills and tension with comfort blanket understanding that it’s going to follow a straightforward and successful formula. I genuinely worried about security expert Will Sawyer’s children as they tried to escape from half-way… Skyscraper (3D) Read More