This year’s edition of the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, which took place 16th – 26th March 2017, offered … More
Category: British
T2 Trainspotting (2017): what’s life like when you’ve been on drugs for 20 years?
Unlike superhero franchises, bespectacled magician sagas and New-Zealand-based heroic fantasy trilogies, 90’s cult film Trainspotting wasn’t exactly begging for a … More
How was your ‘Weekend’? Enticing, moving and real. How about yours?
When I recently saw Andrew Haigh’s ‘Weekend’, it immediately made me think of Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise’ (1995). It would … More
A 19th-century rock’n’roll romance at Wuthering Heights
After her promising, widely-acclaimed second feature “Fish Tank” in 2009 (see review here) Andrea Arnold returns with an adaptation of … More
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: both a brain-teaser and a no-brainer
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (2011) by Tomas Alfredson, whose critically acclaimed Swedish-language first feature “Let the Right On In” indicated … More
From Iron Lady to Lady Gaga
In the same way I went to see “The Downfall” (2004) by Oliver Hirschbiegel praying I wouldn’t get to find out … More
Before shame there was hunger
Steve McQueen’s second feature “Shame” is now on general release, so it’s perhaps a good time to rediscover “Hunger” (2008), … More
Torpedoed by Submarine
“Submarine” (2010) by The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade is a touching coming-of-age movie revolving around dreamy 15-year-old Oliver Tate’s little … More
Caught in the net of Fish Tank
Fish Tank (2009) by Andrea Arnold, heralded as one of British independent cinema’s jewels made in recent years, is well … More
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