Tag: British Cinema

Amulet | Review

The Lying Nun: Garai Sways Scary with Stimulating Debut Indeed, the female of the species is more deadly than the male even in the realm...

Beats | Review

Gravitational Arch of Men: Teenage Friendship’s Last Hurrah Found in Walsh’s Scottish Techno Crowd-pleaser Simultaneously a nostalgic throwback and a vibrant, youthful anthem of rebelliousness, Beats...

The Trip to Greece | Review

The Greece-y Strangler: Winterbottom Lays His Culinary Comedy Series to Rest Michael Winterbottom aims to kill his darlings with the fourth and final segment of...

Blue Story | Review

Enemies, a Love Story: Rapman Rides the Waves of a Street War in Familiar Fashion Although it’s not quite West Side Story (1961), either in...

Sex, Lies and Emancipate: Schlesinger Finds Fantasy in New Wave Classic “Billy Liar” (1963) | Blu-Ray Review

An important piece of the short-lived British New Wave of the early 1960s was John Schlesinger’s sophomore film Billy Liar (1963). But if the...

Misery’s Company: Gollings Squanders Dream Cast in Sole Directorial “Connecting Rooms” (1970) | Blu-ray Review

For his one and only directorial effort, Franklin Gollings managed to finagle an impressive cast with 1970’s Connecting Rooms, based on the play The...

Video Interview: Dylan Holmes Williams – The Devil’s Harmony (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival

With a certain clinical Lanthimos-like aestheticism and The Stepford Wives sorting of the character set, London-based filmmaker Dylan Holmes Williams has been super-charged by...

Heist Season: Losey Gets Hard Boiled in Somber Neo Noir “The Criminal” | Blu-ray Review

Sporting one of cinema’s most varied filmographies, American born Joseph Losey is one of the few blacklisted success stories of McCarthy’s witch hunt in...

The Corrupted | Review

Crime Time: Scalpello Skirts the Underbelly in Generic, Capable Thriller We’ve reached a point where something like The Corrupted, the latest offering from Britain’s Ron...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #42. The Nest – Sean Durkin

The Nest Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-U.K....

The Day Shall Come | Review

Fooling the Children of the Revolution: Morris Returns with Dark, Political Satire Stakes are perhaps too high for writer-director Christopher Morris’s sophomore film following the...

Bait | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival Review

Scratching the Surface: Jenkin’s Ambitious Visual Style Carries Cornish Coastal Drama Experimental filmmaker Mark Jenkin shines a light on the film industry of Cornwall with...

The White Crow | Review

Defector Becomes Him: Fiennes Revisits the Westernization of Rudolf Nureyev There’s much to admire in the third directorial outing of actor Ralph Fiennes with The...

Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Vita & Virginia

My favorite sub-genre in cinema happens to be films about filmmaking and second place, before the biopic, are films about the lives of authors,...

Where Hands Touch | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

I See a Dark Stranger: Asante Examines Obscured Holocaust Perspective in Anglo Period Piece British director Amma Asante rounds out a thematic trilogy of sorts...

Interview: Michael Pearce & Jessie Buckley – Beast

Unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform section with additional premieres at Sundance and Rotterdam earlier this year, Michael Pearce's directorial...

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