Happy as Lazzaro

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

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

The Wife

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

Green Book

The more distance I get from this film, the less I like it. First, a framing consideration. The arts are … More

Glass

(May contain mild spoilers for Glass. Definitely contains spoilers for Split (2017)). We thought we had M. Night Shyamalan’s number. … More

Welcome to Marwen

A couple of things I chose to ignore, or more accurately had selective recall over, when enjoying Robert Zemeckis’ latest … More

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots presents the Tudor tale of Elizabeth I of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Cousins biologically, but … More

Colette

Keira Knightly has recently spoken about the possibility period films offer for story-telling about women’s lives. In Wash Westmoreland’s new film, … More

The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos’ effervescent new film The Favourite is set in the early eighteenth-century, in the court of the beleaguered Queen Anne. … More

Mary Poppins Returns

Mary Poppins Returns is a cynical and masterfully put together spectacle, promising complete immersion in period (fiction) London. It looks perfect; … More