Film Review: EO (2022)
Jerzy Skolimowski acknowledges that his donkey story, EO, takes another donkey story, Au Hasard Balthazar, as inspiration. His observation of the human elementContinue Reading
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Film Review: Nostalgia (2022)
The problem with nostalgia is that it’s not real. Perhaps, like Felice, you can kid yourself for a while thatContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Emily the Criminal
A wannabe artist working in the gig economy is tempted into a scam to earn some extra money on theContinue Reading
Marie’s Top 10 plus 5 of 2022
Marie kicks off 2023 for The Movie Isle with her Top Ten (plus a wee bit extra) Films of 2022.Continue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Radiance Films’ The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Limited Edition)
Radiance Films launches in 2023 with a very well-timed Blu-ray debut – the Cannes Palme d’Or winning film The Working ClassContinue Reading
Film Review: Broker (2022)
If there’s anyone you can trust with a story about marginalised people somehow forming their own unique family to getContinue Reading
Film Review: Peter von Kant (2022)
Peter von Kant’s tears are slightly warmer than Petra’s were 50 years ago, but François Ozon’s homage to his idol RainerContinue Reading
Film Review: Hilma (2022)
Lasse Hallström’s biopic of Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint struggles to unpack the originality of the artist’s life andContinue Reading
A Room of My Own – London Film Festival 2022
Marie’s final report from #LFF22 hops over to Tbilisi, Georgia, to discover how difficult it is for contemporary young womenContinue Reading
Subtraction – London Film Festival 2022
Take a slice of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, a good pinch of Asghar Farhadi and the lightest sprinkling of Wong Kar-Wai’s In theContinue Reading