Category: Film
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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The Handmaiden film review ****
The Handmaiden, 19th May 2017 I don’t read too much fiction these days. I prefer theatre, the visual arts and music. I have also found much of the contemporary fiction that I have read in the last few years a little underwhelming. I have a long list of classics I…
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Lady Macbeth film review ****
Lady Macbeth, 3rd May 2017 So a bit of an aside first. Went to see that Sense of an Ending at the cinema but never got round to reviewing it. Bit pointless now as it has probably been and gone from all those arthouse cinemas where it might have got…
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Graduation – film review *****
Graduation, 12th April 2017 I haven’t seen too many films at the cinema this year and have so far resisted the temptation to offer up an opinion on any of them, in large part because they had been and gone before I kicked off this blog. (For what it’s worth…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 