Flatliners is one of my all-time favourite films. The 1990 original, that is. Joel Schumacher’s vision was amazing, and the widescreen visuals were killed on pan-and-scan VHS tape, so it’s no surprise that when I …
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Flatliners is one of my all-time favourite films. The 1990 original, that is. Joel Schumacher’s vision was amazing, and the widescreen visuals were killed on pan-and-scan VHS tape, so it’s no surprise that when I …
Continue readingFifty Shades Darker returned the mismatched pair to the big screen where we learn Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) had a troubled childhood, similar to how this film series had a troubled history when original director, …
Continue readingLondon Korean Film Festival 2017: Every year, as winter comes around, we look forward to this event, and 2017 certainly lived up to expectations. There seems to be a real urgency in the country’s exploration …
Continue readingRaw centres around freshman University student and vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) who, together with her biology class, are liberally splattered with animal blood as part of an initiation, leaving her with a huge rash. It …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 3 brings us all the documentaries, plus the 2017 DVDfever Film Awards! No matter the quantity and quality of high-profile feature films spread across the London Film Festival, you …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 2: What a time for international filmmaking – and particularly European movies from our near neighbours, Spain, Italy and France, plus Hungary, Austria and Poland. Vive la difference! So …
Continue readingBFI 61st London Film Festival Part 1: Let me take you by the hand and lead you towards the films that are streets ahead of the rest, the ones you’ll need to track down, and …
Continue readingAva (Noée Abita) is a girl of 13 years of age, who has just learned that her sight is failing. Sure, this happens to all of us, but not at that age, and it’s happening …
Continue readingStar Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi treads a very well-worn path: The First Order want to obliterate the Resistance out of existence, and the Resistance don’t really want that, and have to fight back. …
Continue readingJustice League finds Gotham still in mourning from… (and I hope you’ve seen Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before reading this!) the death of Superman, and there’s a brief bit of mobile phone footage …
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