Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
An authentic throwback, a kind of hybrid homage, SPUTNIK is a little bit Alien, a little bit Forbidden Planet, a little bit Creature from the Black Lagoon.
An anachronistically obtuse title, SPUTNIK is set in the Cold War year of …
Dolce! THE GODDESS OF FORTUNE has got to be one of the sweetest films to screen this year. It is one of two special presentations at this year’s ST. ALi Italian Film Festival.
Ostensibly a celebration of community and friends, …
Redolent of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, BETTY is the kind of compelling storytelling that instills iris burning images, ear-worm prose, indelible characters and an innate sense of time and place.
Born sixth into a family of eight children, Betty is …
Quite literally, a whistle blower triggers the release of suppressed memories in THE SECRETS WE KEEP.
Fifteen years after the end of World War II, Romanian refugee, Maja, has rebuilt her life in the United States of Suburbia with her …
I was reminded of Alain de Botton’s book, How Proust Can Change Your Life whilst watching THE TRANSLATORS, a whodunnit based in the cut-throat world of publishing.
Proust, or at least a copy of his book, literally saves someone’s life …
It ain’t excellent and it ain’t bogus, BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC is better than bogus and less than excellent.
The film’s opening scene, featuring Bill and Ted as best men at their ex step mum’s wedding, is excellent, …
BECKY is a grim little Z grade take on Home Alone that is abysmally self conscious and too genre reverential to be much good or much fun.
Brat bitch Becky is bereaved and behaving badly. She’s lost her mum to …
POLY. What a cracker!
Could POLY, Paul Dalgarno’s polymorphously perverse debut novel, be in pol position for one of the most pleasing reads published in the present pandemic.? Probably.
POLY plots the polyamory of Chris and Sarah Flood, married with …
Almost 30 years since its inception, and with 200 titles in print, the BFI’s Film Classics series is relaunching with a fresh new cover approach and new titles. This signals a change of focus, with women, LGBTIQ+, black, Asian, mixed …
Quench your Quentin Tarantino with THE EIGHT HUNDRED, a more hateful eight than his Western of the same name.
Imagine Tarantino helming the epic spawn of Saving Private Ryan and The Dirt Dozen and you get some idea in what …