Event Review: Shorts On Tap ‘All in the family’, 27 August 2015, Cafe 1001, Brick Lane
Photo: Sofia Ribeiro (from Shorts On Tap Facebook page) Still attracting packed houses on Thursday nights - Europa League, whats t…
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Film Review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - relatively good
As an impressionable young lad in the 1970s, I watched the Man From U.N.C.L.E. films on TV of a school holiday morning: The Helico…
Cruise and the coop
Our Saturday afternoon pastime, should the weather hold is to stand in wait, squared by so-called crash barriers, for the modern m…
Film Critics Confidential
James Franco has just published a book entitled Actors Anonymous. In it, he describes the mantras that actors adhere to in pursuit…
I’ll be bland – Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Terminator: Genisys promotion trail
On Wednesday 17 June 2015, I joined hundreds of movie fans at Vue Westfield in Shepherds Bush, West London for a twenty minute sne…
Cannes 2015 Film Review: GREEN ROOM – colour find
OK, so it was never in the running for the 2015 Cannes Palme DOr - that went to director Jacques Audiard for Dheepan. It did not b…
Cannes 2015 Film Review: Mara und der Feuerbringer – flaming good
German childrens films dont usually make it into British cinemas, but Mara und der Feuerbringer might be the exception. Its an ent…
Cannes 2015 Film Review: NI LE CIEL NI LA TERRE (The Wakhan Front) – when genre and drama don’t mix
The French contribution to the war on terror is examined in director Clment Cogitoires film Ni le ciel ni la terre (The Wakhan Fro…
Cannes 2015 Film Review: Les Deux Amis – with friends like these...
I have no problem with films about unlikeable protagonists - otherwise I wouldnt have seen Downfall, Henry: Portrait of a Serial K…
Cannes 2015 Film Review: GAZ DE FRANCE (France is a Gas) – comedy lacks energy
One of the Cannes Film Festivals less well-known sidebar events is Acid, a programme of films for young people. This year, it show…
