Film Review: Marty Supreme – “breathless, unrelenting and wickedly humorous”
Tuesday 20th January 2026
In Josh Safdie’s breathless, unrelenting and wickedly humorous debut as sole-director, Timothée Chalamet plays the eponymous quick-witted Marty, who desperately strives to avoid a banal existence as a New … Continue Reading
Film Review: Hamnet – “Buckley’s interpretation of Agnes’ grief, and anger, is instinctive and beautifully nuanced.”
Monday 19th January 2026
It’s fair to say that cinema has found a great deal to mine from Shakespeare. Whether it’s the man himself, hurrying along to the playhouse, trying to stave … Continue Reading
Film Review – David Bowie: The Final Act
Monday 12th January 2026
With a career spanning five decades, how does one pack the full extent of David Bowie’s life and works into a single, 90-minute film? The answer, coming from this Channel … Continue Reading
Film Review – Die My Love “a must-see film”
Monday 24th November 2025
“I’ve always been so fascinated by characters and getting into their psyche” and Lynne Ramsay’s latest film Die My Love is no exception. In … Continue Reading
Film Review: Bugonia – “a psychological thriller with large helpings of dark humour and sudden lurches into horror”
Monday 17th November 2025
As Teddy Gatz tends his bee hives he is inspired to equate how their lives are influenced by higher forces, to how superior forces work on the human race. As … Continue Reading
Film Review: Exhibition on Screen – Caravaggio “the artist that deployed chiaroscuro to bring a cinematic flair to religious iconography”
Tuesday 11th November 2025
Reviled (or revered) as the Bad Boy of Italian Art, Caravaggio’s reputation seems to be unassailable. The bravura artist that deployed chiaroscuro to bring … Continue Reading
London Film Festival 2025
Friday 24th October 2025
Back from a week at London Film Festival and looking forward to a packed November programme.
LFF always sounds like fun to people who don’t go but … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Exorcist – “not a film about evil”
Tuesday 7th October 2025
I am pretty sure it was around the release of the 25th Anniversary edition that I saw William Friedkin’s 1974 adaption of William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist. … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Roses – “you’ll instantly recognise the familiar beaches and coves of South Devon”
Tuesday 16th September 2025
Taking inspiration from both the original 1981 novel, The War of the Roses and its 1989 film adaptation, The Roses reimagines the chaotic story of the destruction of a marriage … Continue Reading
“Romantic, Pragmatic, Feminist”: Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Although it doesn’t get the same attention as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion or even Emma, Sense and Sensibility can lay … Continue Reading
Film Review: “Thank You for Banking with Us!”
Monday 9th June 2025
When their father unexpectedly dies, two sparring sisters must come together in a race against time to covertly claim their rightful inheritance from the bank, before, by order of … Continue Reading
Film Review – Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Thursday 5th June 2025
When it comes to making the transition from page to screen, there are few novels that can rival the track record of Jane Austen’s 1813 classic, … Continue Reading