Film Review / ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ (M) *** and a half IN 2008, Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows published a novel that, perhaps because of…
Film Review / ‘The Party’ (MA) **** Film Review / ‘The Party’ (MA) **** I SPENT a moderate while asking Google the cost of writer/director Sally Potter using seven…
Film Review / ‘Isle of Dogs’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Isle of Dogs’ (M) *** ESSENTIAL for understanding this bilingual animation is the ability to read subtitles quickly. Which means…
Film Review / ‘Truth or Dare’ (MA) ** and a half Film Review / ‘Truth or Dare’ (MA) ** and a half IT'S a game. Games have rules. In writer/director Jeff Wadlow’s thriller with a mystic overtone,…
Film Review / ‘Have You Seen the Listers?’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Have You Seen the Listers?’ (M) *** and a half ON completion, a creative work in whatever medium – painting, writing, hewing stone, composing concertos,…
Film Review / ‘A Quiet Place’ (M) ** and half Film Review / ‘A Quiet Place’ (M) ** and half AT the core of this strange little supernatural thriller is John Krasinski, who co-wrote the…
Film Review / ‘Blockers’ (M) stinker, stinker, little star! Film Review / ‘Blockers’ (M) stinker, stinker, little star! OF the 15 producers credited with corporate approval to make “Blockers”, only Seth Rogen’s name…
Film Review / ‘The Death of Stalin’ (MA) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Death of Stalin’ (MA) *** and a half AS Lord Acton said in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: “All power…
Film Review / ‘The Other Side of Hope’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Other Side of Hope’ (M) *** and a half WHO'S Finland’s best-known filmmaker ? Aki Kaurismäki. Never heard of him? That’s sad, because since…
Film Review / “Mary Magdalene” (M) ** Film Review / “Mary Magdalene” (M) ** THIS is director Garth Davis’s second feature, after “Lion”. And we know what a powerful…
Film Review / ‘Die G?ttliche Ordnung’ (The Divine Order) *** and a half (M) Film Review / ‘Die G?ttliche Ordnung’ (The Divine Order) *** and a half (M) BY 1971, feminism was marching apace globally. Except in Switzerland, where the status of married…
Film Review / ‘Peter Rabbit’ (PG) *** Film Review / ‘Peter Rabbit’ (PG) *** LEAVING the cinema, I asked a mother just ahead of me how her moppet had…