• Sun. May 19th, 2024

Reviews

Prevenge

After co-writing and starring in the indie hit that was 2012’s Sightseers, and going on to charm audiences in the strange and lovely Black Mountain Poets (2015), it seems fair…

Fences

Based upon August Wilson’s play of the same name – Wilson here also adapting his own work – Denzel Washington’s third directorial outing impresses as much as it frustrates. At…

Hacksaw Ridge

It is practically a certainty that every year, around awards season, an ambitious director will attempt to seduce the Oscar panel with a glossy, dramatic war epic attempting the same…

T2 Trainspotting

First, there’s opportunity, then there’s betrayal. Watch history repeat itself, a different time, a different circumstance, much has changed, but much has also stayed the same. Nostalgia runs parallel with…

Lion

In his feature film directorial debut, Garth Davis takes the true story of five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) and moulds his tale into the uplifting and heart-warming film that is Lion.…

Jackie

Jackie is a film about a story which we all think we already know: raised on the tales of the Kennedys as if they were the same as Camelot. The…

Split

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), this psychological thriller launches straight into the action with the kidnap of three teenage girls. Imprisoned in a dingy…

A Monster Calls

To have starred in a film like Pan alongside Hugh Jackman is astonishing enough for Edinburgh schoolchild Lewis MacDougall. To then so confidently take the leading role of Connor O’Mally…