FILMS
Monos film review: weird, disturbing and excellently done
Oct 25, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
Fresh from an award-winning screening at the Sundance Film Festival and in competition at this year’s London Film Festival, Monos, from director Alejandro Landes, is a dark, disturbing and highly entertaining Spanish-language film about a fictional group of child soldiers
The Cave: Telling the story of a remarkable rescue
Oct 16, 2019
Written by
Graeme Gourlay
The inside story about The Cave – the first feature film about the rescue of the Thai schoolboy football club saved from a flooded cave
Hotel Mumbai review: Anthony Maras
Sep 25, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
Hotel Mumbai shares a true story of heroism in the face of terror and honours the real staff who laid their lives on the line, but its use of action-movie tropes detracts from an otherwise powerful story
The Last Tree review: Shola Amoo
Sep 23, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
A moving coming-of-age story about a young black man’s struggle to define himself while growing up with his mother in London
Manry at Sea at the Ocean Film Festival 2019 review
Aug 21, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
The uplifting story of a remarkable man who sailed the Atlantic in a tiny boat called Tinkerbelle
Aruanas review: Carlos Manga Jr and Estela Renner
Jul 02, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
An ‘environmental thriller’ focusing on the lives of campaigners working to protect the Amazon rainforest proves as responsible on-screen as it does off-screen
The Flood review: Anthony Woodley
Jun 21, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
In this moving, sometimes harrowing film from director Anthony Woodley, the relationship between an asylum seeker and an immigration official takes centre stage, humanising both individuals through two excellent performances
We the Animals review: Jeremiah Zagar
Jun 14, 2019
Written by
Vitali Vitaliev
A brutal, hard-hitting coming-of-age tale that doesn’t hold its punches
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