A vital insight into one of the most overlooked parts of the Holocaust, and Serbia’s official Oscar entry, Dara of Jasenovac has been struck by accusations of having a nationalist agenda It feels impossible to review this film for an outside audience without giving you something of a 20th century …
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things asks us to consider, if we had all the time in the world, wouldn’t time eventually lose all meaning and value? Kathryn Newton and Kyle Allen lead this smart teen love story where time does literally stand still for its couple. ‘The Map of …
Tamara Lawrence, Fiona Shaw and Jack Lowden star in Kindred, a creepy indie in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and Get Out Lawrence stars as Charlotte, a young woman living in rural Scotland with her boyfriend Ben under the shadow of his family’s grand but crumbling estate. The pair plan …
Mads Mikkelsen teams up again with Danish auteur Thomas Vinterberg for the anarchic Another Round, the 2021 Academy Award winner for Best International Feature So here’s the deal, I first saw Another Round last October as part of the BFI London Film Festival and was supposed to review it then, …
Florian Zeller’s The Father is a fiendishly clever and powerfully affecting dementia drama When The Academy chose to make the 2021 Oscars so heavily about the late, great Chadwick Boseman they clearly weren’t betting on veteran, classically trained Sir Anthony Hopkins snatching the Best Actor trophy (and I can’t really …
John Wick meets Home Alone in the unashamedly over the top Nobody Bob Odenkirk stars as Hutch Mansell, a downtrodden average Joe working a boring office job with the same routine week in week out. Ignored by his wife and kids and mocked by his co-workers and in-laws, his life …
F9 aims for a podium finish but can’t quite escape the saga of family drama once the unrealistic ‘car-nage’ begins It’s almost here, the latest installment in the Fast and furious saga, will be on screens in a week. The Fast and Furious series has always been divisive amongst the …
Hamilton header Lin Manuel Miranda brings his original smash hit musical In the Heights to the big screen with this gorgeous blockbuster adaptation Whilst Hamilton may have taken over the world with that once in a generation level of fame for a Broadway musical you may not realise that its …