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UK Film Review
- May 8, 2016
- 2 min
The Unearthing indie film
★★★★ Directed by Tristen James Jensen Starring Riley Yeary, Kaleb Miller and Angelina Masciopinto Indie Film Review by Lorenzo Lombardi First things first —- the best part about this film is the well defined craft its director was able to showcase for such a lack of experience. Tristen James Jensen shot, produced, wrote, and directed his debut The Unearthing, a solid coming-of-age drama with an effective mix of adventure and mystery. Its narrative structure is understandable
UK Film Review
- May 5, 2016
- 4 min
Demolition
★ Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, Heather Lind Film Review by Kieran Freemantle On the surface, the comedy-drama Demolition has the qualities to be a great film. It stars the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts and Chris Cooper and was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée - the man who brought us Dallas Buyers Club and Wild. But those talents are not enough to salvage a terrible screenplay and a repulsive main character
UK Film Review
- May 4, 2016
- 2 min
Green Room
★★ Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Starring: Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Potts, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Alia Shawcat, Macon Blair Film Review by Colin Lomas Hard core punk band the Ain’t Rights are on a tour of America in their small splitter van; singer Tiger (Turner), guitarist Pat (Yelchin), bassist Sam (Shawcat) and drummer Reece (Cole) managing to travel between venues only by syphoning fuel from parked cars and feeding on incredibly limited supplies. When one of
UK Film Review
- Apr 29, 2016
- 2 min
The Missing Hand short film
Directed by Daniel Harding Starring Meryl Griffiths and Neil James Short film review by Sarah Smeaton This is an intriguing short film with perhaps more slapstick humour than I would have liked to have seen in what could have essentially been a great dark comedy. What should have been a very macabre scene of finding a severed hand instantly turns into absurdity. Ms Whitman (Meryl Griffiths), a professional-looking housing developer, picks up a dismembered body part with her b
UK Film Review
- Apr 28, 2016
- 2 min
Son of Saul
★★★ Directed by László Nemes
Starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár & Urs Rechn
Film Review by Chris Olson Award-winning Hungarian war drama, Son of Saul (originally titled Saul fia), is a technically daring and cleverly obscure piece of filmmaking that triumphs in its method but limits its own narrative freedom.
The film tells the story of Auschwitz prison inmate Saul (Géza Röhrig), who is a member of the Sonderkommando; a band of inmates who scuttle around the infamous c
UK Film Review
- Apr 28, 2016
- 3 min
Bastille Day
★★ Directed by James Watkins Starring Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Kelly Reilly & Anatol Yusef Film Review by Alexander Halsall From director James Watkins is a foray into the action genre with Bastille Day. His past work has been primarily in horror, with acclaimed hits Eden Lake and Woman in Black. Set in Paris a con man Michael (Richard Madden) steals a bag belonging to Zoe (Charlotte Le Bon) which unknowingly to him contains a bomb. When the device detona
UK Film Review
- Apr 27, 2016
- 5 min
Louder Than Bombs
★★★★ Director by Joachim Trier Starring Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid, Amy Ryan Film Review by Andrew Moore Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s third film (and his first in English) is an accomplished piece about an upcoming photo exhibition, retrospective and article on a revered deceased photojournalist Isabelle Joubert Reed (Isabelle Huppert) by the Times newspaper. It examines the effects of this on the subtle equilibrium of the remaining
UK Film Review
- Apr 27, 2016
- 3 min
Welcome to Leith
★★★ Starring Craig Cobb, Jeff Schoep, Ryan Schock, Kynan Dutton, Deborah Henderson, Bobby Harper Directed by Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker Documentary Film Review by Colin Lomas Leith, a registered ghost town in North Dakota, is home to twenty people and a single shop. The almost entirely forgotten town suddenly becomes the most discussed settlement in America as renowned white supremacist Craig Cobb moves in to buy up land and property to rent out or give away
UK Film Review
- Apr 26, 2016
- 2 min
Sammy Can't Dance short film
Directed by Ryan McLoughlin
Starring Sophie Barker & Oliver Monaghan Short film review by Monica Jowett Short film Sammy Can’t Dance blurs the lines between reality and fiction, as Sam struggles to cope after his girlfriend ends their relationship. Directed by Ryan McLoughlin and co-written by McLoughlin and Salar Moorgan, the film shows a dark side to a lonely boy. The film opens to video footage taken by Sam (Oliver Monaghan) of him and his girlfriend Janice (Sophie Barker
UK Film Review
- Apr 26, 2016
- 3 min
Victoria
★★★★ Directed by Sebastian Schipper Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff Film Review by Colin Lomas Ok, let’s get it out in the open right away; Victoria has recently gathered a mass of attention specifically due to one single reason; that the entire movie was shot as a continuous take. Given that the film is almost two hours and twenty minutes in length, it appears an almost psychotic undertaking from director Schipper. Of course, techni
UK Film Review
- Apr 23, 2016
- 4 min
Eye in the Sky
★★★★ Directed by Gavin Hood Starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul & Barkhad Abdi Film Review by Chris Olson If you wanted to find a silver lining to modern global terrorism (and I think we all do), it’s that it has given us all a lot to think about. Politically, culturally, and socially, one of the most defining aspects of our lives over the last 15 years has been the proliferation of extremism since 9/11. Like it or not, most eras in history are inherently linked t
UK Film Review
- Apr 21, 2016
- 2 min
A Girl and Her Gun short film
Directed by Paul Holbrook and Sam Dawe Starring Matilda Randall, Brian Croucher, Laura Bayston & Joe Sims Short film review by Sarah Smeaton This edgy short film is the epitome of what makes British film so outstanding and admired around the world. A brilliant story of a down-trodden, ordinary teenage girl shunned from the world by everyone around her. With nobody in her life seemingly understanding her, her only form of solace is in watching old cowboy and western movies. Ri
UK Film Review
- Apr 17, 2016
- 3 min
Comic Fingers documentary
★★ Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Aneek Chaudhuri Documentary Film Review by Andrew Moore Aneek Chaudhuri’s Comic Fingers is a documentary (of sorts) about Indian satirical cartoonist KV Guatam. The film muses over his life and career (with interviews and clips of his motivational speeches) set against the wider roles of cartoonists in the world today, their freedom of expression (without persecution) in the light of incidents such as the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the rig
UK Film Review
- Apr 16, 2016
- 2 min
Couple in a Hole
★★★ Directed by Tom Geens Starring Paul Higgins, Kate Dickie, Jerome Kircher Film review by Colin Lomas There are marketing companies who would charge you the price of a Jordan Belfort house party to come up with the best name for a movie. ‘You need something smart’ they would WhatsApp you from the break out canoe in their Shoreditch offices, ‘Relevant’, ‘Sophisticated’, ‘Serene’, ‘Something virtual for the Millennials’. But you know what? If you’ve got a film about a couple
UK Film Review
- Apr 15, 2016
- 2 min
Hitchcock/Truffaut
★★★★ Directed by Kent Jones Starring Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Mathieu Amalric Film Review by Colin Lomas In 1966, movie maker and lynchpin of the French New Wave cinema movement Francois Truffaut released ‘Cinema According to Hitchcock’; a book based on a week-long set of conversations he had with Alfred Hitchcock about the craft of Hitchcock’s art as a filmmaker. Jones’ movie employs recorded dialogue from the intervi
UK Film Review
- Apr 14, 2016
- 3 min
Dheepan
★★★ Directed by Jacques Audiard Starring Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers Film Review by Colin Lomas In a desperate attempt to escape war-torn Sri Lanka, a Tamil fighter finds a woman and a recently orphaned girl to complete a valid family immigration unit with passports harvested from the recently dead. With his new identity Dheepan (Antonythasan) and his new fabricated wife Yalini (Srinivasen) and new nine-year old dau
UK Film Review
- Apr 14, 2016
- 3 min
Midnight Special
★★★★ Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Jaeden Lieberher, Kirsten Dunst & Adam Driver Film review by Alexander Halsall Following the success of writer/director Jeff Nichols’s previous features Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, and Mud is his first studio feature Midnight Special. Nichols is one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge in the last few years; he reunites with ever present actor/accomplice Michael Shannon in his latest feature. Roy
UK Film Review
- Apr 11, 2016
- 2 min
Ghost Nets short film
Directed by Mark Bousfield Starring Bruce Lawrence, Joe Sowerbutts & Charlotte Mounter Short film review by Sarah Smeaton Ghost Nets sets itself up to be a really fresh, indie film. What follows didn’t leave me feeling so satisfied. The best part about this film has to be the breathtakingly fantastic shots of English coastline. The dramatic cliffs of Joss Bay in Kent provide the perfect ambience for this film. Literally on the edge of the world as they know it, the characters
UK Film Review
- Mar 29, 2016
- 2 min
The Conversations indie film
★★★★ Directed by Marcus Flemmings & Haider Zafar Starring Haider Zafar, Daniella Down, Anna Leong Brophy & Michael Keane Indie film review by Chris Olson Madcap dark comedy The Conversations is the zany love child of filmmakers Marcus Flemmings and Haider Zafar that takes a boy-loses-girl story and delivers it with incredible freshness, biting comedy, and poignant melancholy. Dentist-cum-Stand-Up-Comedian Al (Zafar) has his heart broken in the opening moments of this indie fi
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