Little Monsters is a great advert for teacher excellence, if not much of a recruiting tool – as multi-talented kindergarten teacher Miss Caroline has to save her class of small charges as they face down an attempted zombie apocalypse. I say attempted; it does feel a little half-hearted, as the world’s slowest undead hordes stagger round… Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Destination: Dewsbury 2 stars
It’s a huge shock when the first one of your generation dies, as delusions of immortality crumble and the reality of middle age looms. New indie British comedy Destination: Dewsbury tackles this from the viewpoints of four men, mates since school, their lives starting to disintegrate just as the fifth member of their schoolboy gang turns out… Destination: Dewsbury Read More
A Simple Favour 3 stars
*** Not sure I can ever claim a review is entirely spoiler-free, but I haven’t included the twists and turns *** Much like at-a-crossroads suburban mom Stephanie, A Simple Favour is a film that tries on different outfits, unsure what it really wants to be. It certainly ticks a lot of boxes: thriller, comedy, satire, crime… A Simple Favour Read More
The Beguiled 4 stars
The women and girls in The Beguiled are trapped, both by convention and by war. Bustling round their decaying Virginia plantation house, weeds coming through the veranda, ivy snaking up the crumbling columns and dust showing on the skirting boards, the teachers and pupils of Martha Farnsworth’s school have nowhere to go, and no way of going… The Beguiled Read More