18½ – MANIFF 2022
A fun, veering towards darkly comical take on what may have happened to the missing 18 ½ minutes of PresidentContinue Reading
Tag: historical drama
Film Review: Lapwing (2021)
Philip Stevens’ debut feature Lapwing settles down in an isolated community at the mercy of the drunken and violent whims of itsContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Well Go USA’s The Great War of Archimedes
The Great War of Archimedes is a very different look at WW2 which gives new life to the War Film. New fromContinue Reading
Film Review: Queen Marie (2021)
Our own Marie was not going to pass up the chance to see a film called Queen Marie – it has quiteContinue Reading
Film Review: DEAR COMRADES! (2021)
“What am I supposed to believe in if not communism?” Idealism and family take centre stage in this film, based on realContinue Reading
Mangrove – London Film Festival 2020
Director Steve McQueen’s film Mangrove launched the 2020 London Film Festival with a potent and necessary story about racism and discrimination inContinue Reading
And the Winner Isn’t … Podcast – Apollo 13
Season 1 Episode 5 – Apollo 13 (1995) Dan and Marie explore the films which were nominated in the OscarContinue Reading
Film Review: Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
Beautiful vistas mask something more violent in a border town in Ciro Guerra’s adaptation of J M Coetzee’s novel Waiting forContinue Reading
Film Review: The Painted Bird (2020)
A film adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s acclaimed but controversial novel The Painted Bird always had the potential to be divisive. Czech directorContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Shout Factory’s Ophelia (IFC)
Ophelia takes Shakespeare’s most famous play and changes the Point of View. The Film Shakespeare was never kind to women. Continue Reading