Director: Yemi Bamiro Unless you are Imelda Marcos or Carrie Bradshaw, to most of us shoes are just a practical necessity, but when Nike introduced…
FILM REVIEW: The Salt In Our Waters (Nonajoler Kabbo) – The BFI London Film Festival
Writer and Director: Rezwan Shahriar Sumit In this film from Bangladesh, artist Rudro travels to a remote fishing village to work on his sculptures. But…
FILM REVIEW: One Night in Miami – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer: Kemp Powers Directors: Regina King This year’s London Film Festival has been particularly strong for debut movies and Regina King’s One Night in Miami…
FILM REVIEW: Cicada – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer: Matt Fifer with Sheldon D Brown Director: Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare Ben is sick with desire, it seems. He picks up men and…
FILM REVIEW: Ultraviolence – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer: Tariq Mehmood Director: Ken Fero Deaths by police action inflamed our summer, sparking the #BlackLivesMatter protests but while the most famous cases have happened…
FILM REVIEW: Supernova – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer and Director: Harry Macqueen One way to achieve intimacy on screen is to cast actors who have known each other a long time, director…
FILM REVIEW: Wildfire – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer and Director: Cathy Brady The Irish entries into the London Film Festival are always some of the most exciting in the programme and this…
FILM REVIEW: Mogul Mowgli – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writers: Bassam Tariq and Riz Ahmed Director: Bassam Tariq In the past few years, public discourses on British identity have been trying to shrink its…
FILM REVIEW: Wolfwalkers – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer: Will Collins Directors: Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart Cromwell’s Ireland was a dangerous place, filled with occupying soldiers, military rule and brutal massacres to…
FILM REVIEW: Time – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Reviewer: Maryam Philpott “Desperate people do desperate things” Sibil Fox Richardson explains at the beginning of Garrett Bradley’s documentary Time, but how long should a…
FILM REVIEW: Herself – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writers: Clare Dunne and Malcolm Campbell Director: Phyllida Lloyd Sometimes, a film speaks entirely to the moment of its release more profoundly than its creators…
FILM REVIEW: 200 Meters – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer and Director: Ameen Nayfeh Dividing countries with a wall may be a populist political strategy for countries worried about immigration but it is the…
FILM REVIEW: Undine -The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer and Director: Christian Petzold Love me or die is an intimidating proposition, but one that protagonist Undine puts to Johannes in a quiet café…
FILM REVIEW: Honeymood – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer and Director: Talya Lavie No one sleeps in Jerusalem in this wry rom com from Tayla Lavie. It might be expected the two newlyweds…
FILM REVIEW: Kajillionaire -The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer and Director: Miranda July The hustler movie has been undergoing some changes in recent years, broadening its perspective to include female protagonists and even…
FILM REVIEW: Bloody Nose Empty Pockets -The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Directors: Bill Ross and Turner Ross When we think of modern America and particularly Las Vegas we see corporate influence, and a country fractured by…
FILM REVIEW:Mangrove -The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writers Steve McQueen and Alastair Siddons Director: Steve McQueen Opening the London Film Festival for the second time in two years is a rare achievement,…
FILM REVIEW: Shirley – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer: Sarah Gubbins (based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s novel) Director: Josephine Decker The life of Gothic novelist Shirley Jackson is reimagined as a slice of…
FILM REVIEW: The Relic – The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writer: Natalie Erika James and Christian White Director: Natalie Erika James This new Australian horror begins with one of the genre’s most familiar trope: the…
FILM REVIEW: Siberia- The BFI London Film Festival 2020
Writers: Abel Ferrara and Christ Zois Director: Abel Ferrara As one gets older, the search for the meaning of life becomes more poignant. But this…