Film Festivals

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…

On Chesil Beach – BFI London Film Festival Review

As Dominic Cooke’s directorial debut On Chesil Beach draws to a close, the final shot…

Bobbi Jene – BFI London Film Festival Review

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

Loving Vincent – BFI London Film Festival Review

“Artists, their job is to see the world in a new way, that sometimes contradicts…

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…

Tides – BFI London Film Festival Review

Never has a canal holiday looked so good. Paul O’Callaghan’s crisp black and white photography…

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library – BFI London Film Festival Review

197 minutes. That’s how long Ex Libris: The New York Public Library is. 3 hours…

Brawl In Cell Block 99 – BFI London Film Festival Review

The great Stanley Kubrick once said: “The test of a work of art is, 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…