INTERVIEW: Oscar-Nominated Composer Volker Bertelmann on his Film & TV Career
Since being Oscar-nominated for his score for Lion in 2017, Volker Bertelmann has become a prolific composer of film and television scores including: 2017 – 5 films/TV shows including: The Current War (dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) – our review TV BBC/HBO: Gunpowder (creators: Ronan Bennett, Daniel…
REVIEW: Enola Holmes (2020)
It came as something of a surprise that the first book in Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes series – The Case of the Missing Marquess – has been adapted into a film (albeit on Netflix) instead of being the first episode in a TV series. Presumably,…
Millie Bobby Brown is Enola Holmes in Brand New Trailer
England, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as…
Boris, Bullingdon and The Riot Club
The Riot Club (directed by Lone Scherfig) is not my favourite film of the decade (although it is definitely in my Top 10) but I believe it is one of the most important films of the decade. Especially when viewed in a double-bill with a…
First Trailer For Elizabeth Banks’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Released
“In Banks’ bold vision, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world’s smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of…
New Trailer For Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’ Has Been Released
“THE NIGHTINGALE is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (AISLING FRANCIOSI), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her 7-year sentence, she is desperate to be free…
REVIEW: The Nightingale (Sundance 2019)
Director Jennifer Kent has gone in a somewhat unexpected direction as a follow up to her cult hit, The Babadook. Mining the uncomfortable corners of her country’s past, Kent has conjured a work full of relentless brutality, which will definitely prove too much for some,…
REVIEW: Adrift (2018)
‘Adrift‘ is based on the true story of American Tami Ashcraft (her name is changed to Oldham in the film for some reason) and Brit Richard Sharp, who met in Tahiti in 1983 while travelling and became engaged. They then embarked on a voyage together,…
Competition: Win A Copy Of ‘Journey’s End’ on DVD!
Courtesy of our friends at Lionsgate UK, we have a copy of Saul Dibb’s ‘Journey’s End‘ on DVD to give away! Earlier this year Fiona reviewed the film for us and couldn’t recommend it enough, so we’re excited to have the opportunity for you to…
REVIEW: Journey’s End (2018)
Based on the play by RC Sherriff, which will be familiar to many British school students, this film has just opened to a limited release in the US and I was lucky enough to find a showing of it. As someone who has taught WWI…
REVIEW: My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Roger Michell, probably best known as the director of Notting Hill, brings us this fresh take on Daphne Du Maurier’s dark thriller, ‘My Cousin Rachel’. A wealthy young man, Philip (Claflin) plots revenge against his mysterious cousin Rachel (Weisz), believing her to have murdered his…
