A Hologram for the King
Despite the always-engaging Tom Hanks, the themes of A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING feel malnourished and an imitation of better films. Jim Ross reviews.
Category Archives: Reviews
Captain Fantastic
An intelligent trip into a counterculture family drama, Jack Toye reviews CAPTAIN FANTASTIC at the 69th Cannes Film Festival
Green Room
Andrew Nickolds reviews Jeremy Saulnier’s latest thriller GREEN ROOM.
Café Society
Woody Allen’s latest film, set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, comes under the Film Festival gaze of Jack Toye
The Brand New Testament
Joan Osborne’s 1990s hit ‘One of Us’ gets its answer in this wacky extravaganza co-written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael.
Midnight Special
TAKE SHELTER director Jeff Nichols goes the full STARMAN in his US Indie take on 1980s children’s adventure films.
Marguerite
Will anyone tell Marguerite that she can’t sing? On the face of it that is the whole movie. But there is much more to it than this, writes Mike Levy.
Who's Driving Doug?
“The longer you focus on trying to be normal, the longer it’s going to take you to realise that nobody’s normal.”
The VVitch
Rosy Hunt reviews THE WITCH, a Puritan folk-tale previewed at this year’s Watersprite Festival.
Spotlight
Investigative journalism, but not as we know it – not from the movies, anyway. Andrew Nickolds reviews SPOTLIGHT