19 February 2015 New Zealand Margaret Atwood’s essay collection On Writers and Writing is a pleasant enough way to spend an afternoon. Just don’t…
United They Stood
20 January 2015 London Ava DuVernay’s film Selma recreates a pivotal moment in America’s civil rights movement with intelligence and…
The Road Less Travelled
18 January 2015 London Wild, a fantastic film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, creates a new kind of movie heroine – the…
Comedy of Errors
16 January 2015 London Two new movies – Into The Woods and Birdman – send me from ass-numbing boredom to comedy…
O, What A Lovely War!
12 January 2015 London Testament of Youth, a new British film based on Vera Brittain’s celebrated WWI memoir, is deeply…
A Brief History of Marriage
5 January 2015 London The Theory of Everything, a new biopic about disabled physicist Stephen Hawking, is – against all odds…
A Not So Simple Man
8 November 2014 London The Imitation Game brings the life of gay mathematician Alan Turing to the big screen. Despite…
Filmucopia Part IV: Old Love
17 October 2014 London My London Film Festival marathon closes with two very different New York-based love stories: the wonderful…
Filmucopia Part III: National Gallery
12 October 2014 London Frederick Wiseman’s wonderful documentary National Gallery pays tribute to and quietly critiques one of the UK’s cultural…
Filmucopia Part II: Super Saturday
11 October 2014 London In Part Two of my London Film Festival marathon, I review Mike Leigh’s magnificent Mr Turner, the…
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