Film Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018)
by‘It’s not the film that I would have made.’ So says Matangi Arulpragasam, known on-stage as M.I.A., after initially watching her friend (or maybe…
Current Theatrical Releases
Film Review: Pick of the Litter (2018)
byHaving grown up with two black Labradors, I’ve always been curious as to how a dog takes up a career as a seeing-eye dog….
Film Review: Eighth Grade (2018)
byFor the third year running, the New Year brings us another terrific film centred on a teenage girl. Last year it was Saoirse Ronan…
Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
byFew can deny the timeless appeal of the original Mary Poppins. Led by the legendary Julie Andrews in her feature debut, the 1964 classic…
Film Review: The Favourite (2018)
byIn modern filmmaking there are few directors who have stamped as unique a footprint as Yorgos Lanthimos. This idiosyncratic Greek is impossible to ignore,…
Film Review: Cold War (2018)
byCold War is about damaged people in a damaged country in a damaged world. Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski’s monochrome follow up, and in some…
Film Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
byIn 2012 a lovable, unlikely duo burst onto our screens and forever changed what it means in animation to be a bad guy. Wreck-It…
Film Review: Vice (2018)
byAs Julia Louis-Dreyfus lampoons so wonderfully in her show Veep, the Vice President’s office is notorious for being a powerless vanity title for political…
Film Review: Bumblebee (2018)
byEver since Transformers arrived on cinema screens in 2007 the series has been the great example of the disconnect between critics and ticket buying…
Film Review: Peppermint (2018)
byEvery moment in culture is reflected in the art it produces. In a world changing as swiftly and as fundamentally as the one we…