The Party’s Just Beginning Review

She works behind a supermarket cheese counter in Inverness, and they can’t even get her name badge right. That’s the smallest of the miseries that Luisaidh (Kar... Read More...

Book Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Tehran, 1953, before the coup. Iran is experiencing a brief spell of relative peace, although there are rumours of something terrible on the horizon. It’s again... Read More...

Permission Review

Afrooz (Baran Kasari) is the captain of Iran’s national women’s futsal (a variant of football) team. Largely due to her captaincy, the team have achieved a plac... Read More...

State Like Sleep Review

Calling your film State Like Sleep is a brave move. You may as well call it Tedium or Narcolepsy. You have to be pretty confident in your work to use such a cri... Read More...

Diego Maradona DVD Review

Diego Maradona. He started life in an Argentinian slum and went on to become the most notorious footballer in the world. Maradona was a famed womaniser, was in ... Read More...

Book Review: Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie

Here is the first sentence of the fifth story in Irenosen Okojie’s collection, Nudibranch: Once the stray parts of a singed scene had found their way into th... Read More...

Book Review: A Puff of Smoke by Sarah Lippett

For most of her childhood, Sarah Lippett was in and out of various hospitals. Her symptoms were pervasive and confusing, stumping doctor after doctor. She was m... Read More...

Book Review: The Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott

It’s 1921, three years after the end of World War I. Edie, whose husband Francis is missing presumed dead, gets the shock of her life when she receives a pictur... Read More...

The Beach Bum Review

There is a story to The Beach Bum, but it doesn’t matter all that much. Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) is a perpetually stoned poet who spends his life partying ... Read More...

BFI London Film Festival 2019: The Best Of The Fest

That's all folks. With the 63rd London Film Festival over for another year, here are our highlights from the films we managed to watch across the 11 day event. ... Read More...

The Peanut Butter Falcon Review

Zak (Zack Gottsagen) is a wrestling-obsessed young man with Down’s syndrome who has been living in nursing home, the state lacking the resources to put him some... Read More...

Book Review: Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg

Michele has gone missing. His father is dying. His mother is frantic. His sisters are fatigued. And there’s a woman on their doorstep with a baby who might be h... Read More...