Movie Marker • 3rd March 2017

Bitter Harvest Review

Starring Les Miserables‘ Samantha Barks and The Riot Club‘s Max Irons, Bitter Harvest brings to light a painful part of Ukrainian history: the intentional starvation genocide perpetrated by Stalin on the Ukrainian people in the 1930s known as the Holodomor, a tightly kept secret which the West did not find out about until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Movie Marker • 5th October 2016

LFF 2016 Opening Gala Review: A United Kingdom

All in all a beautiful, heartfelt film set against gorgeous backdrops, with an awards-worthy performance from David Oyelowo.

Movie Marker • 24th July 2016

The Violators – DVD Review

Set in the post-industrial wasteland surrounding a Northern council estate, The Violators is the daring debut feature film from novelist-turned-director Helen Walsh.

Movie Marker • 2nd June 2016

Sundance London 2016 Review: Morris From America

A heartwarming but confused coming-of-age story, screening at Sundance London on 3rd and 5th of June.

Movie Marker • 2nd June 2016

Sundance London 2016 Review: Wiener-Dog

Wiener-Dog is the newest from US auteur director Todd Solondz, screening at Sundance London on the 3rd and 4th of June.

Flickering Myth • 19th May 2016

Movie Review – Departure (2016)

Beatrice (Stevenson) is in the middle of a separation from her husband and is trying to work out how to live life on her own terms. Together with her son, Elliot (Lawther) they have come to their holiday home in the French countryside where they are getting ready to pack up and sell the house. Whilst on the trip, Elliot meets the handsome French bad boy, Clément (Brossard) and he begins to work through the dawning of his own sexuality and alienation from his mother.

Flickering Myth • 18th May 2016

Movie Review – Kill Command (2016)

In a near future technology-reliant society, an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes (Lindhardt) and his tight-knit squad, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

Disclaimer Magazine • 7th May 2016

Film Review: One­ take wonder "Victoria" is a thrill ride around Berlin

Victoria​, the third feature film from German director Sebastian Schipper, while not eligible for a foreign language Oscar due to the dialogue being mostly in English, is a cinematic marvel which deserves every possible award that could come its way.

Flickering Myth • 3rd May 2016

DVD Review – Sisters (2015)

Sisters Kate (Fey) and Maura (Poehler) Ellis return to their parental home in Orlando, FL to pack up their bedrooms as their parents sell the house, and decide to throw the last ever ‘Ellis Island’ party for their high school friends. With Kate taking on the ‘party mom’ role for the first time, and Maura finally deciding to let loose… what could go wrong?

Flickering Myth • 23rd March 2016

DVD Review – Steve Jobs (2015)

A glimpse into the life of modern myth Steve Jobs, the controversial CEO of Apple, as he hashes out professional and personal conflicts right before the major product launches that shaped his career as well as the world of personal computing as we know it.

Flickering Myth • 28th February 2016

Movie Review – The Other Side Of The Door (2016)

A desperate, grieving mother seeks closure through a forbidden ancient Indian ritual. When her son’s spirit inadvertently returns to the world of the living, strange and terrible things begin to happen.

Flickering Myth • 9th December 2015

Blu-ray Review – Absolutely Anything (2015)

An absolutely average earthling (Simon Pegg) is given the galactic power to do absolutely anything by a group of sinister aliens. Whether he uses his power for good or evil will determine whether Earth will be destroyed.

Flickering Myth • 6th December 2015

Movie Review – Attack On Titan: Part 1 & Part 2 (2015)

Since the appearance of man-eating giants known as Titans more than 100 years ago, humanity has enclosed itself within the confines of three concentric walls, and a ban on all innovation is strictly enforced. When the Outer Wall is destroyed by a Titan larger than any ever seen before, the farmlands within (as well as countless lives) are lost to the mindless and indestructible Titans. Eren, a survivor of the attack, enlists in the army regiment tasked with re-claiming the fallen wall.

Flickering Myth • 29th November 2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 video review – is this the best movie of the franchise?

The Hunger Games franchise is over with Mockingjay – Part 2. Watch Oli Davis and Kat Kourbeti compare it against the other movies and debate the series’ biggest question…Gale or Peeta?

Flickering Myth • 20th November 2015

Short Film Review – OVER (2015)

OVER presents a crime scene. During the course of 9 wide shots told in reverse order, we witness an intriguing story unfold. What has happened in this quiet neighborhood? A murder, a hit-and-run, an accident? The reality is profound, and deeply unexpected.

Flickering Myth • 8th October 2015

59th BFI London Film Festival Opening Gala Review: Suffragette (2015)

In 1913 London, a young laundress (Mulligan) is swept into the Women’s Vote movement just as it begins to boil into militant activism.

Flickering Myth • 25th September 2015

Second Opinion – Sicario (2015)

An idealistic FBI agent (Blunt) joins a task force on the war on drugs after discovering a cartel “death house” in Arizona. What she sees during her time there changes her forever, as the lines and borders blur between the US and Mexico, and between the laws of men and the laws of nature.

Flickering Myth • 22nd September 2015

Movie Review – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

After narrowly escaping the maze, Thomas (O’Brien) and the others are whisked off to a facility full of medical equipment, military grade weapons and lies. Finding themselves on the run again, they begin to discover the truth about what brought them here, to the maze and to the scorched deserts outside, as well as the shocking truth about each other.

Flickering Myth • 10th September 2015

Movie Review – The Visit (2015)

Two siblings visit their estranged grandparents for a week. Filming all of it as an attempt to reunite the grandparents with their mother after years of not speaking, the footage soon turns out to be something much more sinister than a family documentary.

Flickering Myth • 21st August 2015

Movie Review – Paper Towns (2015)

Quentin–Q–(Wolff)’s life has always been safe. Pre-ordained. Orderly. When his childhood friend and lifelong crush Margo (Delevigne) goes missing, just days before prom and graduation, Q and his friends begin to follow the clues she left behind, and go on a roadtrip in a quest to prolong their inevitable goodbye and give Q the chance to tell Margo how he feels.