London Film Festival 2014: Marc Quinn – Making Waves
Marc Quinn – Making Waves [rating=3] by Mark Wilshin A year in the life of artist Marc Quinn, infamous for the bust of his…
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London Film Festival 2014: Foxcatcher
Carell, Ruffalo and Tatum are a stellar triumvirate in this unsettling and bone-chillingly creepy true story.
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London Film Festival 2014: Mommy
Mommy [rating=4] by Mark Wilshin Returning to the subject of his first film I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan’s Mommy describes the tempestuous relationship…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Tribe
The Tribe [rating=2] by Mark Wilshin How important is language to one’s understanding of a work of art? Or culture or country? For Miroslav…
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London Film Festival 2014: Phoenix
Phoenix [rating=4] by Mark Wilshin Loosely based on extracts from Hubert Monteilhet’s Le Retour Des Cendres, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix plays a dangerous game with…
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London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash
Ferocious, electric and unrelenting, Simmons and Teller never miss a beat in Damien Chazelle’s phenomenal second feature. Whiplash [rating=5] by Dave O’Flanagan Boasting not…
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London Film Festival 2014: My Old Lady
My Old Lady [rating=3] by Alexa Dalby Kevin Kline shines as Mathias (Jim) Gold, a boorish American in Paris, just short of his 57th…
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London Film Festival 2014: Love Is Strange
Love Is Strange [rating=5] by Mark Wilshin Following his New York story of impossible love Keep The Lights On, Ira Sachs returns with another…
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London Film Festival 2014: Leviathan
Leviathan [rating=4] Moving from vast vistas of Russia’s frozen North into an isolated parable of one man, ex-soldier and handyman Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) as…
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London Film Festival 2014: In The Basement / Im Keller
In The Basement [rating=4] by Mark Wilshin Nothing makes Austria more terrifying than the films of Ulrich Seidl, and none more so than In…
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London Film Festival 2014: Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth [rating=4] by Mark Wilshin Following his previous film The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, James Kent returns with a fully…
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London Film Festival 2014: Serena
Serena [rating=3] by Mark Wilshin It doesn’t look good from the get-go. George (Bradley Cooper) is a hunter on the quest for a near-extinct…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Salvation
An entertaining modern Western with the magnetic Mads Mikkelsen, The Salvation is gorgeous to look at – but as hollow as a Ten-gallon hat.
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London Film Festival 2014: The Wonders / Le Meraviglie
The Wonders [rating=4] by Mark Wilshin Following a farming family living on the brink of bankruptcy, Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders is a social realist…
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