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Predator review: Arnie’s back on the big screen for the 30th anniversary re-release

Shane Black is currently working on The Predator. In 1987, Black acted, and was involved…

Deliver Us (Liberami) Review

Evil is neat. A clear answer for those complex, deeply upsetting tragedies of the world.…

BFI London Film Festival 2017: The Best Of The Fest

In our London Film Festival preview, we predicted we would be tired. It’s a prediction…

Bobbi Jene – BFI London Film Festival Review

“I need to dance, I need to work hard, that’s it”. Words of Bobbi Jene,…

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – BFI London Film Festival Review

The site of decaying billboards is becoming the norm across the Western world. When the…

Lady Bird – BFI London Film Festival Review

An angry teen, annoying parents, best friends who fall out and awkward romances that don’t…

A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot – BFI London Film Festival Review

In the ongoing process of growing up, a memorable moment was when my father, in…

Abu – BFI London Film Festival Review

The tension between fathers and sons is always a poignant and powerful theme. Not only…

Thoroughbreds – BFI London Film Festival Review

Thoroughbreds feels like a contemporary Hitchcockian thriller. Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke are affluent girls…

Funny Cow – BFI London Film Festival Review

Victoria Wood. Julie Walters. Sarah Millican. I can think of few female comics from “the…

Lucky – BFI London Film Festival Review

A tortoise walks across the screen. He’s pretty much there, but hasn’t quite made it.…

Happy End – BFI London Film Festival Review

For Michael Haneke to title a film Happy End is a surprise. Between Funny Games,…