Director: Terence Davies London Film Festival 2021 review Mortality permeates the air in Benediction, a powerfully sombre work where each moment seems to mourn its own passing. As with 2016’s excellent Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet […]
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Director: Edgar Wright London Film Festival 2021 review For better or worse, the genre films of Edgar Wright have always felt like they’re being delivered to us within a pair of quotation marks. Ever since his days at the […]
Director: Todd Haynes London Film Festival 2021 review Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground opens with a 1963 clip from the US gameshow I’ve Got a Secret. In it a young Welsh composer-musician by the name of John […]
Director: Julia Ducournau London Film Festival 2021 review In their most visceral moments, Julia Ducournau’s films deliver the kind of violence and grotesquerie that can make a seasoned horror fan feel human again, proving that even the last […]
Director: Brandon Cronenberg London Film Festival 2020 review Bringing new meaning to the phrase, “corporations are people,” Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is a dazzling evocation of late-stage capitalism’s all-consuming reach, not just for how it taps […]
Director: Cathy Brady London Film Festival 2020 review The past is never really past in Cathy Brady’s turbulent feature debut, which blends the personal with the political for a thematically rich portrayal of lasting trauma in the long shadow […]