Originating as a Kickstarter project, the highly anticipated martial arts comedy The Paper Tigers received it's world premier at Fantasia International Film Festival 2020. Inspired by the films of Shaw Brothers Studio, the movie is a hugely entertaining and heartfelt celebration of…
Sometimes a film unexpectedly stays with you after viewing. This is usually down to the central themes or certain performances, but for me The Oak Room's simple premise about storytelling, expertly crafted through a non-linear structure and atmospheric cinematography, caught me by…
British Columbian actor and musician Finn Wolfhard burst onto the world stage in the culture-shifting Netflix series STRANGER THINGS. With subsequent performances in the IT films, THE GOLDFINCH, THE TURNING, and THE ADDAMS FAMILY, among others, and forthcoming roles in Jason Reitman’s…
The BFI has announced that this year’s closing film will be the biopic Ammonite, directed by Francis Lee and starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
The film will receive its UK premiere on Saturday 17 October and will be available to UK audiences at cinemas across UK,…
Ri an Johnson has deliciously subverted the classic whodunnit films with his latest outing Knives Out, a hilarious & whip-smart Agatha Christie-style murder mystery. Following the divisive Last Jedi, Johnson has returned to his genre bending roots à la Brick, his high school neo-noir…
Directed by Trey Edward Shults, Waves centres on Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) a high-school wrestling star with a promising future, supported by a loving family and girlfriend Alexis (Euphoria‘s Alexa Demie). But a painful, career jeopardising injury held at bay with prescription…
The London Film Festival 2019 opened with this delightfully charming re-imagining of Charles Dickens most beloved and larger than life autobiographical novel - and it's an absolute joy! Most known for The Thick of It and Veep, Armando Giovanni leaves the satirical…
The Favourite (2018)
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by: Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
Starring: Emma Stone, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz.
The Favourite, the latest film from visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred…
Outlaw King
Netflix
Directed by: David Mackenzie
Written by: Mark Bomback, Bathsheba Doran, David Harrower, James MacInnes and David Mackenzie
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Howle, Chris Pine, Florence Pugh, Stephen Dillane and Tony Curran.
Outlaw King is the latest big budget blockbuster from Netflix documenting the rise…
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Universal Pictures & Focus Features
Directed by: Boots Riley
Written by: Boots Riley
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, Armie Hammer and Forest Whitaker.
Sorry to Bother You is one of the most original, bold and inventive directorial debuts from rapper Boots Riley that features a…
Colette (2018)
Lionsgate
Directed by: Wash Westmoreland
Written by: Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer and Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough and Rebecca Root.
With current campaigns such as #TIMESUP and #MeToo working to address gender inequality, surely the latest costume…