18½ – MANIFF 2022
A fun, veering towards darkly comical take on what may have happened to the missing 18 ½ minutes of PresidentContinue Reading
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A fun, veering towards darkly comical take on what may have happened to the missing 18 ½ minutes of PresidentContinue Reading
Philip Stevens’ debut feature Lapwing settles down in an isolated community at the mercy of the drunken and violent whims of itsContinue Reading
The Great War of Archimedes is a very different look at WW2 which gives new life to the War Film. New fromContinue Reading
Our own Marie was not going to pass up the chance to see a film called Queen Marie – it has quiteContinue Reading
“What am I supposed to believe in if not communism?” Idealism and family take centre stage in this film, based on realContinue Reading
Director Steve McQueen’s film Mangrove launched the 2020 London Film Festival with a potent and necessary story about racism and discrimination inContinue Reading
Season 1 Episode 5 – Apollo 13 (1995) Dan and Marie explore the films which were nominated in the OscarContinue Reading
Beautiful vistas mask something more violent in a border town in Ciro Guerra’s adaptation of J M Coetzee’s novel Waiting forContinue Reading
A film adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s acclaimed but controversial novel The Painted Bird always had the potential to be divisive. Czech directorContinue Reading
Ophelia takes Shakespeare’s most famous play and changes the Point of View. The Film Shakespeare was never kind to women. Continue Reading