Shadows on the Wall

The 68th BFI London Film Festival kicked off this week, just as my two-month stint on a television series wrapped, so there's been no ti...

I'm even busier this week as the date approaches for the 44th London Critics' Circle Film Awards, which I am organising on Sunday. S...

Now that the key film festivals have taken place, the movie landscape shifts into awards-season mode. I've actually been working on the ...

The weather in the UK has broken all records, unbearably hot temperatures for a nation that has so little air conditioning. Thankfully, I wa...

As Britain enjoyed a sunny heatwave, we were clobbered with the news that pandemic restrictions won't be further lifted on 21st June as ...

Another week of lockdown, another unusual collection of movies released into the streaming networks. At least the weather has been gloriou...

Here are four more films I've caught up with lately as I get ready to vote in a few year-end awards. There are three very different ki...

This week's blockbuster press screening was for Spider-Man: Far From Home , a refreshingly enjoyable blockbuster starring the hugely e...

This week's line-up of press screenings was refreshingly female-oriented, offering a respite from the usual masculine bravado that...

And with Goose...

I caught up this week with three films that are circling in awards season this year, but are only just now being screened for London criti...

I've been in America's Deep South for a week and finally managed to get to a cinema yesterday to see Incredibles 2 , which opens n...

There were a few big blockbusters screened to the London press this past week. The Hitman's Bodyguard is a riotous action-comedy star...

Back into screening mode after returning to London, my first was to finally catch up with Personal Shopper, which reunites a superb Kris...

Spike Lee's 2015  Chi-Raq, a rap-musical take on an ancient Greek play, finally makes it to the UK this year. After screening at the...

UK critics had a chance to screen Richard Linklater's new comedy Everybody Wants Some!! , a spiritual follow-up to two of his earlier ...

Quentin Tarantino's latest epic The Hateful Eight has finally bowed to critics, and it's an oddly uneven film - an intriguing idea...

It's been another eclectic week for London-based film critics. One of the more offbeat films was Barely Lethal , starring Hailee Ste...

My best film this past week was last year's festival favourite A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night , an outrageous Wild West-style Irania...

For me, one of the most important things about being on vacation is not  seeing movies! But of course with my job I'm always needing t...