Film Review: GIRL MOST LIKELY: hit probably not
Since Kristen Wiig hit biig with BRIDEMAIDS, audiences have been expecting a follow-up, something acutely-observed, with the poten…
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Film Review: IN A WORLD: Voiceover film needs word of mouth
Not to be confused with IN THIS WORLD, a Michael Winterbottom documentary-style road movie about illegal immigration into the UK o…
THE 57TH BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 9-20 OCTOBER 2013: EVERYTHING FOR SOMEONE
57 is a good number. Its the number of varieties of Heinz products. Its the number of Communists in the Democratic Party (see THE …
THIRD CONTACT: GETTING IT OUT THERE
The Kickstarter funds have done their trick. London-based filmmaker Si Horrocks has had his BFI IMAX premiere of his 4,000 self-fu…
London Premiere Report: THIRD CONTACT – It’s here
Simon Horrocks, metteur-en-scene, THIRD CONTACT, and I at theBFI IMAX, London Well that young Simon Horrocks fellow has finally do…
Larry Oliver – Diary of a Film Reviewer – 1 to 31 August 2013
Thursday 1 August 2013 The man and his youthful ward stand at the top of Hampstead Heath. It is three oclock in the afternoon. The…
Film Review: THE WAY, WAY BACK – a heart-warming water-slide of a coming of age flick
THE WAY, WAY BACK has earned a lot of three stars reviews in the UK, partly inspired by an exchange between the fourteen year-old …
Film Review: WE’RE THE MILLERS: pot falling a little flat
Pot comedy has come a long way from Cheech and Chong now they dont even inhale. An example of this is WERE THE MILLERS, a modest …
ONE DIRECTION – THIS IS SPECULATION
Now I look forward to a Morgan Spurlock documentary as much as the next person. What you have not seen SUPER SIZE ME? What is wro…
Film Review: SEARCHING FOR HORTENSE: C’EST BON, MAIS...
I will always watch a French film starring Kristin Scott Thomas just to see how a director uses her. Scott Thomas, or KST as I cal…
