Reuniting with his Worst Person in the World star, Renate Reinsve, Joachim Trier returns with a delicate yet raw portrait of family dynamics that serves as a reminder than within each family unit, every individual is also a world unto themselves. We meet Nora (Renate Reinsve), an actress, and her sister, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), as their…
And so, the second film post-Safdie separation arrives with Josh Safdie taking a very different swing at a sports-based film. Its breathless praise has nothing on how you feel by the time the credits role. Set in the 1950s and loosely inspired by a real person, Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a man…
Song Sung Blue arrives with star power and an inspirational true story, but don’t be fooled by the feel-good marketing, this is a story that completely pulls the rug out from under you with many dark turns that would be unbelievable had they not actually happened. It will plaster a smile to your face but…
James Cameron whisks us back to Pandora for a third outing, following directly on from The Way of Water. Whilst it remains an immersive epic, Fire and Ash feels more familiar than it should. We rejoin Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and their family as they are struggling with the grief of losing son Neteyam. Neytiri…
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.…
