Review: SAINT MAUD (2020)

By some miracle, not wholly unrelated to a global pandemic and the possibility that my email somehow ended up on …

Review: EIGHTH GRADE (2019) [Hebden Bridge Film Festival]

There are many things I would like to tell my 13 year-old self now. One of them would be to …

Review: WILD ROSE (2019) [Hebden Bridge Film Festival]

After all, as Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley) points out, if Johnny Cash can make it with convictions on his record, why can’t she?

Review: BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY (2019) [Hebden Bridge Film Festival]

Being Frank is a witty ode to a man and his head. Oh, and the papier mache one too.

Review: US (2019)

Less ground-breaking than his debut film, which steadily rose from word-of-mouth mania to awards darling, Peele’s follow-up Us, and not as precise in exactly what it is trying to convey, is no less disturbing.

Review: THE FIGHT (2019) [Hebden Bridge Film Festival]

The Fight, easy to market as ‘the female Rocky’, is so much more than that.

Review: CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)

Oh captain, my captain! If you remember my Black Panther (2018) review this time last year, I was bemoaning the …

Review: GIRL (2018) [Leeds International Film Festival]

Viewed as part of Leeds International Film Festival and showing at the UK’s leading celebration of LGBTQ+ films, BFI Flare …

Review: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2018) [Leeds International Film Festival]

It takes a lot for me to get excited about zombie films. As a fledging horror fan that’s a bit …

Review: BEAUTIFUL BOY (2019) [Leeds International Film Festival]

The latest Timothée Chalamet film was always going to be a big draw on the festival circuit, particularly at the …