Author Archives: Niki Alexandrou

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…

PREVIEW: Raindance Film Festival

The 23rd Annual Raindance Film Festival opened this week with the world premiere of American spy thriller Newcomer, starring BIFA winner James Floyd (My Brother The Devil) and Anthony LaPaglia, winner of a Golden Globe for his role in Without…

FILM: Eric Clapton Live @ The Royal Albert Hall

Rating: The new live film of Eric Clapton at the Albert Hall, Slowhand At 70, celebrates Clapton as the longest performing artist at the venue and also the musician’s 70th birthday. As impressive as it is to see Clapton still…

FILM: Legend

Rating: HE SAID Tom Hardy snarls and spits his way through this violent, glossy portrait of The Kray brothers and their reign over East London. So impressive is his dual performance as the sociopathic but charming Reggie and the feral,…

FILM: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl

Rating: Me and Earl and The Dying Girl is a smart quirky, charming and very funny comedy adapted by Jesse Andrews based on his own YA novel. Greg is in his last year of high school and up until now…

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: TWIN PEAKS UK FESTIVAL 2015

Twin Peaks originally aired on our TV screens 25 years ago in 1990. Since then it has grown into a huge cult success and is widely seen as one of the best TV shows of all time. In 1992, director…

FILM: TRAINWRECK

Rating: Two things are irrefutable: Amy Schumer can write and she can act; expertly carrying this biting, consistently hilarious rom-com on her shoulders. Amy Townsend (Schumer) is a thirty-something writer in New York working at monthly ‘lifestyle’ magazine Snuff (where…