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, […]
Category: Film
Review: Paddington 2
This year brings the return of the nation’s favourite marmalade-sandwich-munching bear, Paddington. Three years after the release of the first and surprisingly delightful film, the sequel has charmed the nation […]
The Disaster Artist Review
The Disaster Artist is the story behind the making of The Room, one of cinema’s most popular ‘so bad it’s good’ movies. Dave Franco plays Greg Sestero, a young, handsome budding actor. […]
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: Human Flow + Q&A with Ai Weiwei
“Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy.” Nizzar Quabbani, Syrian Poet Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend […]
Review: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Now, we all know the story of A Christmas Carol, as there have been so many incarnations of the original book it’s nearly impossible to avoid. But how many people know […]
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 […]