Category: Film

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Posted in Collections Film

DVD Collection – Remembrance Day

A tenuous link to this latest collection of film reviews but nonetheless heartfelt. I’m not the biggest…

Posted in Film Matt Charman

Film Review: Suite Française (2015)

 “Be careful… with your life” Irène Némirovsky’s novel Suite Française has one of those origin stories you’d…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Black Book (2006)

“One bottle of gin and the Resistance is ready to die” Paul Verhoeven’s Zwartboek, known internationally as…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Testament of Youth (2014)

“The whole situation’s been really quite dreadful” Based on Vera Brittain’s First World War memoir, Testament of…

Posted in Christopher Hampton Film

Film Review: Atonement (2007)

“I suppose we should start by reading it” Atonement was only Joe Wright’s second film but crikey…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh

Film Review: Valkyrie (2008)

“We have to show the world that not all of us are like him” I have to…

Posted in British Independent Film Awards Film Film & TV awards

2016 British Independent Film Awards nominations

Best British Independent Film American Honey Couple in a Hole I, Daniel Blake Notes on Blindness Under…

Posted in Film

Hallowe’en Film Review: I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

“The first night in a place always weirds me out” Released by Netflix just in time for…

Posted in Film Mark Gatiss

Hallowe’en Film Review: Victor Frankenstein (2015)

“This is not life” Released last year, Victor Frankenstein has the ignominy of being something of a…