Loaded with enough intrigue to make you think yourself into a corner, School’s Out ramps up the dread at every turn, up to its (literally) explosive climax.
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London Film Festival 2018: Wildlife
Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould gamely shoulder the hefty emotional weight of Paul Dano’s directorial debut, supported by an underused but nonetheless brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal.
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BFI LFF Day Twelve
You wouldn’t believe it, but it’s the last day of BFI. It’s also the last day of our coverage from TWO FILM FESTIVALS. Blimey. We’re going to hibernate now, so please read these in the meantime. It’s been a pleasure. [spacer height=”20px”] Trespass Against Us [spacer height=”20px”] An Interview: Alice Lowe [spacer height=”20px”] BFI London Film…
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BFI London Film Festival Roundup
James Baxter-Derrington and Louis Chilton had a blast at this year’s BFI LFF. Here’s a list of their top 10 features, each with a link to their full reviews (just click the titles!) so you can check out all you need to know and discover some terrific new films. Manchester By The Sea Grief is…
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An Interview: Alice Lowe
Louis Chilton had the pleasure of being part of a group interview with director, writer and actress Alice Lowe, who gave us an insight into the making of her directorial debut ‘Prevenge’. Prevenge is your debut film as a director, but you also wrote and starred in it. This is pretty unusual for a first-time director.…
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Thrill The Chemical Brothers score this heartfelt, humorous drama about a community of thieves living on a caravan site in the West Country. Yep, you guessed it: Film 4. At the head of the clan stands Pa Cutler (Brendan Gleeson), a man set in his ways, convinced every word his father said was truth (and…
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BFI LFF Day Eleven
The penultimate day of the BFI London Film Festival has a little theme to it. They both begin with ‘Noctur’. It’s magic what good editing can achieve. [spacer height=”20px”] Nocturnal Animals [spacer height=”20px”] Nocturama [spacer height=”20px”]
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Headline Gala In recent years we’ve all fallen in love with Jake Gyllenhaal again – at least I certainly have. He has proven time and again that he is one of the best actors working today, from his unsettling Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler, to the devastated Billy Hope in Southpaw, he is capable not only…
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Nocturama
Debate Gala Nocturama, a slow and challenging thriller about a terrorist attack in Paris, is hard to decontextualise from the recent real-life tragedies. The first stretch of Bertrand Bonello’s film shows the meticulous preparation undertaken by a seemingly disparate group of Parisian youths in implementing a coordinated sequence of terrorist attacks. People board trains, exit…
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BFI LFF Day Ten
Short and snappy for you today. A tight interview, a review of a less than brilliant film, and a review of a pretty good one. [spacer height=”20px”] Lady Macbeth [spacer height=”20px”] An Interview: Houda Benyamina [spacer height=”20px”] Layla M. [spacer height=”20px”]
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