Film Review: Get Out (2017)
byName a great director and you’re pretty much guaranteed that they’ve made a horror movie. Either the genre offered them their start, or it…
12 years a slave
Film Review: Mississippi Grind
byThere’s little better advertising for the writing of a character and an actor’s performance than being happy to watch them do almost nothing, making…
Film Review: Unbroken (2014)
byA-list movie star, mother of six, humanitarian, director. Is there anything Angelina Jolie can’t do? In her first English-language feature film, she proves yet…
Film Review: Kill the Messenger (2014)
byIt’s just about that time of the year when all the films that see themselves competing in the upcoming Oscar season start turning up…
Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
bySteve McQueen really does have a thing for the embattled and imprisoned protagonist. His three feature films to date have focused on an Irish republican leading a hunger strike in Hunger, a sex-addict slipping deeper into the despair of his compulsion in Shame, and now the agonising capture and slavery of freeman Solomon Northrop in 12 Years a Slave.