Lucky – BFI London Film Festival Review

A tortoise walks across the screen. He's pretty much there, but hasn't quite made it. John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, Lucky, is a sensitive, personal an... Read More...

Happy End – BFI London Film Festival Review

For Michael Haneke to title a film Happy End is a surprise. Between Funny Games, Amour and The White Ribbon, the bland term of happy cannot be applied. Neverthe... Read More...

Pickups – BFI London Film Festival Review

When Game of Thrones ended its seventh season, it was clear that Aidan Gillen was one of the finest actors working today. He has always been consistently strong... Read More...

Last Flag Flying – BFI London Film Festival Review

Richard Linklater has always been a director and writer to question. Slacker is questions and answers; thoughts and talking, back to back. Waking Life is, simil... Read More...

The Final Year – BFI London Film Festival Review

Don't expect The Final Year to be about Trump. With unprecedented access to The White House in the final year of Barack Obama's presidency, Donnie inevitably ma... Read More...

The Meyerowitz Stories – BFI London Film Festival Review

Families are difficult. The relationships Noah Baumbach introduces us to in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) are strained, at the very least. He rips t... Read More...

Roller Dreams – BFI London Film Festival Review

Cast your mind back to Michael Jackson's Bad music video. Among the moonwalking and crotch-grabs, one dancer stands out. It's a gentleman who moonwalks with rol... Read More...

London Film Festival 2017: The best films to watch during the next 10 days

Tired. That’s the word we, Culturefly’s dedicated team of writers, will describe ourselves as over the next two weeks as we work hard to deliver you some of the... Read More...

Song to Song DVD Review

"Any experience is better than no experience" narrates Faye, the closest thing to a lead role, in Terence Malick's Song to Song. Malick has been prolific since ... Read More...

In The Name of All Canadians Review

Fittingly, to close the London Hot Docs screenings this year is a short-film compilation, In The Name of All Canadians. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of ... Read More...

Winnie Review

It’s a sad state of affairs when strong, fighting women are reduced to secondary figures to a powerful husband. Our understanding of apartheid in South Africa c... Read More...

Let There Be Light Review

"If we don't crack fusion, then we are doomed", says ITER physicist Mark Henderson, in Mila Aung-Thwin and Van Royko's Let There Be Light. Unlike renewable sour... Read More...