Thoughts on Star Wars (or how often can I say Star Wars)

This post has spoilers for The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi The discourse on the recent Star Wars movies … More

Downton Abbey

In the past few weeks I’ve seen The Souvenir, Pain and Glory, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Lion King. And yet … More

I’m used to watching films take on the topic of drug trafficking. Generally, they’ve tended to tell an American story, … More

I’ve had the song ‘Gloria‘ running around in my head for weeks now, since I saw Gloria Bell in fact. Yes, … More

Settle in for our conversational review of The Sisters Brothers, Jacques Audiard’s adaptation of the novel by Patrick DeWitt. All three … More

Happy as Lazzaro is the third feature from Italian director Alice Rohrwacher. It’s a strange film, outlining a tale of a callous … More

If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to 2016’s Moonlight, is an adaptation of a 1974 James Baldwin novel of the same name. The … More

Michael Inside (2017) written and directed by Frank Berry is a clear-eyed look at one young man’s journey to prison. The film … More

At some point towards the end of Free Solo, a documentary charting Alex Honnold’s attempt to free climb Yosemite’s vertiginous El … More

The Wife focuses on the comfortable theme of the wonderful women behind society’s ‘great men’. Except it doesn’t. Director Björn Runge … More