The Death of Stalin
It’s 1953 in Moscow, and the world’s worst ever secretary, Joseph Stalin, has snuffed it. It’s left to his surviving cabinet – a mixture of the slavishly devoted, cut-throat and […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Twenty years on from the original airing of the ground-breaking Brass Eye, a raft of unseen clips that never made it onto the small screen are resurrected on the big […]
LFF: You Were Never Really Here
One movie causing a stir at the London Film Festival is Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, not to be confused with I’m Still Here, even though both films feature Joaquin […]
Blade Runner: 2049
It’s thirty years after Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachael (Sean Young) drove off into the sunset or awkwardly began their origami business together in a dingy apartment block, depending […]
LFF: The Final Year
This documentary, showing at the London Film Festival, follows Obama’s foreign policy team in the final year of his presidency. For any young people reading, “foreign policy” is something that […]
Mother!
I’ve long recommended exercising caution around films with exclamation marks in their title, whether it’s Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Mamma Mia!, or Darren Aronofsky’s Noah! Ok that […]
It (2017)
The WCA (World Clown Association) have recently gotten hot under the ruffled collar over the new film of Stephen King’s It, worried that the killer clown antagonist will damage their in-no-way-terrifying […]
