London Film Festival 2021: Playground Review

The next film I watched at the London Film Festival on BFI Player is another foreign language film. Based on what I’d read about it, I thought that Playground would make an interesting choice for a film to watch and I have to say that this is one of the most brutal and hard hitting…

London Film Festival 2021: True Things Review

So now we’ve got to the films I’m watching at this year’s London Film Festival on BFI Player. For the first one, I decided to go with True Things. I really enjoyed Harry Wootliff’s previous film, Only You, and I was interested to see what her next film would be. Unfortunately, I think that the…

London Film Festival 2021: The Good Boss Review

For the final film I watched in London at this year’s Film Festival, I wanted a film not in the English language so I decided to check out The Good Boss. Now I had no preconceptions before the film, knowing only what the synopsis on the BFI’s website said and I ended up thinking this…

London Film Festival 2021: Last Night in Soho Review

The second film that I watched at this year’s London Film Festival is probably my most anticipated film of the year and the film I wanted to see more than any other at the festival, Last Night in Soho. Edgar Wright is probably my favourite director working today and hearing that he would be making…

London Film Festival 2021: Ron’s Gone Wrong Review

Once again it’s time for the BFI London Film Festival and, unlike last year, I’ve been able to see a good few films actually in London. There will still be films I watch on BFI Player, but it’s a 50/50 split this time. To start with, the first event I went to was the World…

No Time To Die Review

So we’ve now come to the end of the Daniel Craig era of James Bond. I’ve been a bit mixed on the whole with this era. It started off great with Casino Royale, which I would say is my favourite Bond film, Quantum of Solace was incredibly forgettable, Skyfall was another great Bond film and…

Pig Review

On the surface, this is a film that could easily have been silly. The idea of a film about a man trying to find his truffle pig could have turned out pretty bad, but Michael Sarnoski turns this into a moving, deeply personal film that was a brilliant surprise. The film follows Robin Fell, a…

Respect Review

So there have been a lot of music biopics that have come out over the past few years and they tend to be fairly hit or miss. For every great film like Rocketman or I’m Not There, you get generic fare like Bohemian Rhapsody or outright stinkers like Stardust. The hope of there being another…

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review

This is an instance where, for one of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I had no knowledge of the main character prior to the film being announced. I’ve not read any of the Shang-Chi comics and I don’t remember him showing up in the Marvel TV series I grew up watching. That said,…

Candyman Review

The original Candyman is a film that I was aware of but didn’t actually see until recently. I knew about the history of the film and the impact it had and when I did finally watch it a few weeks ago I found myself impressed with it’s atmosphere. It’s also a film that can very…