After an incredible run of films of the calibre and ilk seldom seen, Luca Guadagnino returns with After the Hunt, which arrived with a provocative premise, stellar cast and a presumed great directorial match, but faded quickly into one of the year’s biggest disappointments. The film centres itself on Alma (Julia Roberts), a philosophy professor at…
The comedic trailers and posters for Roofman make it seem like a stark departure from Derek Cianfrance’s tragedy-skewing filmography, but don’t be fooled. The emotion of Roofman sneaks up on you; for all the feel-good fun, when the rug gets pulled out from under these characters, you’ll find Cianfrance’s capacity to twist your heartstrings is…
I am not the first to bemoan our increasing lack of shared experience and our increasingly fractured, algorithm-driven culture, but the honestly transcendent experience I had at the Hamnet gala premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, really drove home what we risk losing. The London Film Festival is my favourite place to be. It always has…
Bradley Cooper returns to the director’s chair with a smaller-scale story than his previous outings and he further proves his directorial prowess with this perfectly-formed, hilarious and tender relationship study. The kind of adult comedy-drama that feels as though it is from a bygone age, Is This Thing On? is a beautifully crafted breath of fresh air.…
Arriving on the heels of breathless praise from the North American festivals, I was lucky enough to attend the gala premiere of Hamnet at the London Film Festival. Expectations were high, as was the buzz inside Royal Festival Hall, and the film delivered in full force with its audience left emotionally devastated yet bursting full of life.…
