The House with a Clock in its Walls is made by Eli Roth (Death Wish, Hostel), one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors, and it presents an outstanding cast – so […]
Category: Features
Worldwide Watchlist: France
So here we are in September: university, work, grey weather… It’s all back, and soon our holidays will seem distant memories. But luckily for you, here at the Yorker […]
Review: The Guilty
An emergency hotline operator takes a terrifying call and decides to solve what seems like a kidnapping situation by himself. The Guilty is a beautiful combination of simplicity and complexity. […]
Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society is an enjoyable but frankly unmemorable film. A period drama set in England in the aftermath of World War II, it […]
Review: The Shape of Water
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 […]
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 […]