Tag: cinema

FILM REVIEW: RAMS

Rating: Rams is an Icelandic film about sheep farming. From that very short synopsis, you may not expect much from this indie film that won Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015, but you’d be wrong. Rams is a beautiful, quiet…

VIDEO FILM REVIEW: ROOM (LFF)

Rating: Niki and Matt caught, the recently Oscar nominated film, Room last year at the London Film Festival. The film stars Brie Larson in an Oscar nominated role alongside newcomer Jacob Tremblay as mother and son living in captivity after…

LFF: ANOMALISA

Rating: The surprise film at the London Film Festival is always one of the fastest selling screenings. If you’re not on the ball at 10am on the day of ticket release then you may as well not bother; it’s not…

FILM: Mia Madre

Rating: Director Nanni Moretti (winner of the Palme d’Or for The Sons Room in 2001) returns to the domestic and understated for Mia Madre. Margherita Buy plays Margherita, a director shooting her next film about workers protest, whilst simultaneously dealing…

FILM: Just Jim

Rating: Just Jim is the directorial debut from Craig Roberts (Submarine), who also writes and stars in this surreal and very dark comedy set in a small village in Wales. Roberts stars as Jim, a slight and awkward teenager whom…

FILM: A Dozen Summers

Rating: A Dozen Summers is a micro budget (£20,000) film from writer, director and producer Kenton Hall who has made a very ambitious film for his first feature. As it opens we are greeted by the warm, familiar voice of…

FILM: Fantastic Four

Rating: Fantastic Four? More like Fantastic Snore! (I’m sure I won’t be the first or last to use such cheap word play with the title) but unfortunately this remake is a dull attempt to reboot this Marvel comic. The beginning…

FILM: Southpaw

I have no doubt that one day the phenomenally talented Jake Gyllenhaal will win an Oscar however I’ll hedge a bet it won’t be for Antoine Fuqua’s daft, cliche ridden boxing movie.  A rehash of a dozen or so better films,…

FILM: INSIDE OUT

Rating: Inside Out is the latest release from Disney Pixar, directed by Pete Doctor, the man who brought us Up, Toy Story and Monsters Inc. Inside Out follows the characters of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust, all of whom…

FILM: London Road

The words musical and documentary are not often used to describe one film, but that is what London Road is, a musical documentary. Adapted from the National Theatre play of the same name, London Road documents the life of the…