Guillermo del Toro’s name has become synonymous in the cinema world with chilling horror that plays with our expectations and alters the audience’s perceptions. His latest film is a […]
Category: Features
Review: Star Wars The Last Jedi
I’ve often wondered what it was like to watch The Phantom Menace in the cinema. Sitting down after so much build up, only to face two hours of VFX fetishism, […]
Interview: Michael Pearce, director of Beast
During Leeds International Film festival, I had the pleasure of seeing Beast, the brilliant psycho-drama starring Jessie Buckley in a bravura performance. The film’s plot, in the words of its director Michael Pearce, […]
Review: Justice League
The Earth’s mightiest heroes have assembled. Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg are here to save the day in Zack Snyder’s latest superhero smackdown. However, the production was […]
The Yorker at LIFF 31: Best of the Fest
LIFF 31 gave us the opportunity to see an amazing selection of brilliant films. To wrap up our coverage of LIFF 31, we have all recommended a film that we […]
It should have been the film for our generation – what went wrong with The Circle?
Power, politics, surveillance, social media, privacy: The Circle (2017) had everything it needed to be a deep and critical commentary on the ethical dilemmas of today’s world. So why did it […]
The Yorker at LIFF 31: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh burst onto the cinema scene in 2008 with the brilliant In Bruges. That film was profane, funny, dark and tragic. However, his follow-up Seven Psychopaths was a disappointment, a Tarantino rip-off without […]
The Yorker at ASFF ’17: Animation 6
One of the most fascination forms of moving image to me is animation. The time, effort and patience that goes into creating these worlds is immeasurable, and it is no […]
The Yorker at LIFF 31: You Were Never Really Here
The Fanomenon strand of LIFF 31 closed with Lynne Ramsay’s latest film You Were Never Really Here. Adapted from Jonathan Ames novella and starring Joaquin Phoenix, the film premiered at Cannes where […]
The Yorker at LIFF 31: Bad Genius
One of the great things about film festivals is the sheer variety of what gets screened. When perusing the programme for this year’s 31st Leeds International Film Festival, I happened […]