The Sheep Detectives review – cosy doesn’t cover…
Cosy crime gets a CGI spit-shine in Kyle Balda’s likable screen adaptation of Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel ‘Three Bags Full’. First
Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film
Michael review – legacy management 101
Forget all the bad stuff you ever knew about Michael Jackson. Wipe it from your mind. If you happen to
Departures review – the turbulent journey of…
Like boarding a flight for somewhere promising, only to be met with an emergency landing, Departures never quite reaches the emotional depth
Miroirs No. 3 review – no one is doing it like…
When sad-eyed music student Laura (Paula Beer) is involved in a car crash that leaves her boyfriend dead from an horrific
The Stranger review – filmed like a laconic,…
A confession: I am really not a fan of the French filmmaker Franoçois Ozon. He seems like a lovely chap. Literate, passionate, with
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival line-up is here!
The annual tradition of Cannes head honcho Thierry Frémaux sitting at a little table at the front of a Parisian cinema and
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – even worse…
Regrouting blackened bathroom tiles; filling out a commercial tax return; cleaning the mouldering leaves out of a clogged storm drain; grudgingly buying
Fuze review – popcorn fair that fizzles out…
For those not intimately familiar with the topographical and historical minutiae of the UK, the relatively blasé way in which
The Drama review – a very modern shotgun wedding
European cinema breeds provocateurs, from Pasolini to Haneke to Noé, Österlund and Radu Jude. Although separated by generations, nationalities and