Category: Films
Inherit the Witch review – like an am-dram theatre group doing a murder mystery party in an Airbnb
Starring, written and directed by Cradeaux Alexander, this is a low-budget tale of the occult, and not a very good one at that. If you’re [more…]
No Other Land review – powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing
It’s difficult to review No Other Land, a documentary by a group of Palestinian and Israeli activist film-makers on the destruction of villages in the [more…]
Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people | Veronica Esposito
Let’s admit it: cisgender people are really curious about us trans women. They want to know things such as: what’s it like to have a [more…]
Signs of War review – gripping testimony of harrowing march to conflict in Ukraine
Co-directed by photojournalist Pierre Crom and film-maker Juri Rechinsky, this gripping documentary revisits the harrowing events leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Seated [more…]
Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story review – life story of America’s healthcare saviour
As unbelievable life trajectories go, British private school outcast to South American cowboy to US primetime TV naturalist to American healthcare saviour must be up [more…]
‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights
When Andrea Arnold imagined the opening shots of her film of Wuthering Heights, she saw heavy mists swirling around the outline of a misshapen creature [more…]
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’
The actor Elizabeth Olsen and I are in a London hotel, staring down at her dinner. She lifts the lid from one plate: a bowl [more…]
‘She found the truth of the character’: Downton Abbey’s executive producer on Maggie Smith
As I read the various drafts of Julian Fellowes’ pilot script for Downton Abbey, it was not lost on me that his new invention of [more…]
Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school
RaMell Ross’s transcendentally moving and frightening film, adapted from the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead, runs at least initially on a kind of cognitive dissonance. [more…]
Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?
For better and for worse, The Substance, the new, buzzy body horror film, sends up oppressive beauty standards with the subtlety of a blowtorch. The [more…]
