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Category: Film

  • The Party film review ****

     The Party, 2nd November 2017 Other than Orlando this was the first Sally Potter film I had seen. Neither have I seen any of her theatrical events. Which is surprisingly because I would have thought I was bang up the target audience for her work. Ho, hum. So much to…

  • The Death of Stalin film review ****

    The Death of Stalin, 26th October 2017 There have been a lot of clever people born in Scotland. In fact there was a time at in the second half of the C18 when it was the smartest place on Earth, the Scottish Enlightenment. All right maybe I exaggerate a bit…

  • Blade Runner 2049 film review *****

    Blade Runner 2049, 12th October 2017 Confession time. I think the original Blade Runner film is OK. Even in all the re-cut versions. Not brilliant, not a great leap forward in the cinematic science fiction genre, not a searing insight into the human condition. Just OK. Worth seeing but just…

  • Mother! film review *****

    Mother! 28th September 2017 What the dickens was that all about. My guess is that director Darren Aronofsky, as with his previous films, is not entirely sure himself. And that is no bad thing. Here is a chap who seems to have a happy knack of selling multi-layered, grand, quasi-surreal…

  • After the Rehearsal at the Barbican Theatre review ***

    After the Rehearsal Barbican Theatre, 28th September 2017 So what was this going to be? Another flawed, portentous (pretentious?), langourous stroll through a story which might better have been left in its original format, like Obsession here at the Barbican earlier this year in the Toneelgroep Amsterdam Residency? Or a…

  • The Limehouse Golem film review ****

    The Limehouse Golem, 15th September 2017 Now I love a well told Victorian Gothic melodrama and by and large this is what you get here. It is based on the novel, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, by the prolific (if occasionally wayward) author, Peter Ackroyd, though the screenplay by…

  • Logan Lucky film review ****

    Logan Lucky, 30th August Every so often BD and myself settle down to take in one, two, or sometimes all three, of the Ocean’s films (not sure if that is grammatically correct). The pleasure lies in knowing exactly what is going to happen and in the happy feeling it brings…

  • Detroit film review *****

    Detroit, 29th August 2017 I sheepishly admit that, up to now, I had not see a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow in its entirety. I have tried to get going on The Hurt Locker a couple of times but seemed to recall interruptions and general life business got in the…

  • Dunkirk film review ****

    Dunkirk, 26th July 2017 Regular readers of this blog (soon to be counted on the fingers of more than one hand I confidently predict) will have worked out that I am not a committed film buff, preferring the theatre, art exhibitions and, within limits, classical music concerts. And I am…

  • Churchill film review **

    Churchill, 25th June 2017 I am a sucker for screen portrayals of Churchill. I didn’t really get on with The Crown last year on NetFlix but John Lithgow was on the money as the great man. And the past performances from the likes of Brendan Gleeson, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon,…

  • Destination Unknown film review *****

    Destination Unknown, 15th June 2017 Destination Unknown is a very powerful documentary about the survivors of the WWII Holocaust. Director Claire Ferguson has taken the testimony of thirteen Jewish survivors largely from Poland and carefully, but decisively, built up their powerful narratives before, during and after the Holocaust. The film…

  • The Levelling film review *****

    The Levelling, 23rd May 2017 This is director Hope Dickson Leach’s full length film debut. In the screening I attended there was a short but illuminating interview with Ms Dickson Leach which discussed the difficulties female film-makers face in bringing their ideas to fruition. She gave up for a bit…