Shadows on the Wall

It's been another busy week at the movies, as Cannes announced its programme of films, instantly launching next year's awards season...

The first SXSW London festival kicked off on Monday night with the world premiere of the Eminem fan doc Stans , and it runs through the wee...

The holidays are descending upon us, as seen by those out-of-the-office email "gone for Christmas" bouncebacks. But year-end work ...

Heading into the final stretch of the 37th BFI Flare , it's been interesting to see how the films are reflecting a much broader experien...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!  My special gift today was a positive covid test, despite being triple-jabbed and always wearing a mask, so I'll be iso...

As a critic, movies come at me at random, so it's very odd when a pattern emerges. This past week, for example, I saw two Belgian movies...

As the American political landscape gets uglier, with flagrant lies deployed to stoke fear and division, perhaps we should all be listenin...

Here are two Netflix films I caught up with this week, plus another film that hasn't had a UK release but is already streaming from th...

Amid sunny weather in London, while many critics decamp to Cannes for 10 days of frantic festival action, there has been the usual eclecti...

It's been another odd mix of screenings in London this week, with the added distraction of sensational weather over the four-day Easte...

Returning from a film festival, it always takes awhile to catch up, not only writing up a backlog of reviews but also tracing down screeni...

I'm in Southern California visiting my family this week, so haven't exactly been trying to keep up with movies. I didn't even ...

Working at a film festival can be exhausting. Not only do you see three or four films every day, but you need to find time to write about ...

A highlight this week was the Oscar-nominated Mustang , a pointed Turkish drama about five sisters whose strong personalities are at o...

Aside from films I saw as part of BFI Flare, I caught up this past week week with Keanu Reeves' latest career boost movie John Wick ,...

London critics got a look at the documentary Side by Side this week, in which Keanu Reeves chats with a series of a-list directors and ci...