LFF: Talvar (2015)
‘Talvar’, or ‘Guilty’ as it was penned to the London Film Festival crowds, is a true crime thriller that rocked India in 2008 when the crime occurred, and subsequently stormed the […]
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LFF: The Lobster (2015)
Yorgos Lanthimos’s take on reality has always been a little off-balance. It looks familiar, but the people who tend to inhabit his absurdly surreal world and the events that take […]
LFF: Room (2015)
Based on the book of the same name by Emma Donoghue, Room centres on a mother and son locked in a soundproofed garden shed against their will, with no hope […]
LFF: The Boy (2015)
“Like, literally, the worst film I’ve ever seen”. These were the words uttered by someone after the screening of The Boy at the Rich Mix cinema in Shoreditch. Quite why […]
LFF: High-Rise (2015)
It’s difficult to describe what I have seen after my viewing of ‘High-Rise’, the latest outing by acclaimed UK low-budget indie director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in England, Kill List). […]
BFI London Film Festival
Luckily I have a friend with an AMEX card who has been able to secure me some tickets for the upcoming BFI London Film Festival. Many of the galas have […]
Difret (2014)
226) Difret (2014) Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The […]
Honeytrap (2014)
225) Honeytrap (2014) Set in Brixton, London, Honeytrap tells the story of fifteen year-old Layla who gets sucked into gang activity and sets up the boy who’s in love with […]
Son of a Gun (2014)
224) Son of a Gun (2014) Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, […]
Whiplash (2014)
223) Whiplash (2014) A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize […]
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