Category: Films
Forrest Gump review – Tom Hanks’ chocolate box hero still gets under your skin
Robert Zemeckis’s comedy drama is rereleased for its 30th anniversary, starring Tom Hanks as its savant-patriot hero goof from the fictional town of Greenbow, Alabama. [more…]
Skywalkers: A Love Story review – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary
Love is quite literally in the air for Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus. They’re the daredevil Russian couple who make a living “rooftopping”, as in [more…]
Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost
There is a terrific warmth and emotional generosity to this romantic comedy-drama from the Welsh film-maker Janis Pugh, and if the storytelling in the end [more…]
Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze
The dramatist Annie Baker won a Pulitzer for her stage play The Flick, about listless, bored ushers in an empty cinema auditorium between screenings; now [more…]
Waterloo Sunset review – inside an oasis of affordable living
Tourists drifting out of London’s Tate Modern sometimes find themselves peering through the gates of nearby Hopton’s Almshouses, a collection of 20 pretty cottages built [more…]
Thelma review – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper
At 94, June Squibb gives a marvellous performance in this sentimental comedy from writer-director Josh Margolin, inspired by his own grandmother, a video of whom [more…]
Crossing review – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional Istanbul journey
The title wears its wan and melancholy significance a little heavily, and the trompe l’oeil ending is rather mannered, with the kind of flourish that [more…]
June Squibb on getting her first starring role at 94: ‘I don’t have to prove myself any more’
Park up the rig, Furiosa; ditch the rubber suit, Deadpool: there’s a new action hero in town. In Josh Margolin’s wildly entertaining Thelma, an elderly [more…]
Uncanny Me review – exploration of cloning tech fraught with moral and ethical questions
Doubles, doppelgangers, clones; twin visions have long fascinated directors and audiences alike. It’s unnerving, however, when technologies that once belonged to the realm of science [more…]
Sleep review – deviously twisty new parenthood-themed Korean thriller
Horror movie night terrors come in all shapes and forms. But for pregnant wife Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), it’s her loving husband, Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun), who [more…]
