Fighting with My Family is a heart-warming comedy based on the incredible true story of Paige aka Raya Knight (Florence Pugh), and her fight to become the next WWE Superstar. Born into a tight knit […]
“Vice” Is A Gripping Drama That Only Occasionally Misses The Mark
America’s current political climate is fuelled by tension, anger and division. This has led to a stream of films and television programmes aiming to depict the action in both comical and critical ways; but what […]
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” Fails To Shatter Expectations
M. Night Shyamalan’s newest blockbuster ‘Glass’ is a stilted, poorly paced, confusing and anti-climactic third instalment to his superhero franchise Eastrail 177. The franchise includes the intelligent and thoughtful exploration of the comic book superhero […]
Green Book – An Unlikely Friendship Blossoms in the Deep South
Pairing a working class, Italian-American club bouncer from the Bronx, who embodies the ‘masculine’ caricature, with an uptight and effeminate African-American piano player, may not sound like the perfect recipe for a blossoming friendship in […]
Bandersnatch: Playing With Storytelling
Named after Lewis Caroll’s nonsensical beast, Charlie Brooker’s ‘Bandersnatch’ gives the audience control and encourages them to lead a young game designer named Stefan down a macabre rabbit hole of life or death choices and […]
Ralph Breaks The Internet Is Sweet Without Being Saccharine
At first glance, ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ seems to be a brightly coloured, cleverly animated and tooth-achingly sweet story about two best friends that go on a rampant adventure around the internet. While it is […]
Creed 11 is Both Loving Tribute and Brand New Ground
The 8th film in the Rocky series, Creed II, stands as a tribute to the classic Rocky films, while also managing to tell its own excellent story. Following on from the previous film, protagonist Adonis […]
The Princess Switch Review: Why Are Christmas Movies Getting Worse?
Jingle bells, ‘The Princess Switch’ smells… and so do most other modern Christmas movies. God, I miss when Christmas movies were good. Curling up on the sofa with your siblings and being filled with joy […]
Beautiful Boy Review: LIFF 2018
Making his cinematic debut last year with his empathic performance in Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Chalamet is back with a further dose of melancholic beauty as Nic Sheff in his latest film, ‘Beautiful […]
Widows Review: LIFF 2018
With the directing power of Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Shame), and the writing talent of Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Widows was a film I had been strongly anticipating for a while, and that […]
Sorry To Bother You Review: LIFF 2018
The Leeds International Film Festival, also known as LIFF, opened on the first of November with the surreal yet wickedly funny film Sorry To Bother You. In an alternate reality of present-day Oakland, we follow […]
The Old Man and the Gun Review: LIFF 2018
Billed as Robert Redford’s final film before retirement, The Old Man and the Gun centres on the true story of 70 year-old bank robber Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford). After escaping from San Quentin, he performed […]