Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield revitalise the romantic drama with We Live In Time, a dream for the hopeless romantic, pulling at heartstrings and leaving cinema-goers in tears. London-based romance films, whether rom-coms or dramas, are always at risk of playing into those British big-city cliches that can seem unrelatable, overdone, and lacking in depth to […]

Following on from his forensic analysis of grifting in small-town Texas in Red Rocket (2021), director Sean Baker turns his attention to the world of the ultrarich, for Anora, his most expansive canvas to date. ★★★☆☆ You’ve seen many a character like Anora in movies before, though their screentime seems rarely to exceed the five-minute […]

Whether you are, like me, still relatively new to the UK’s film festival scene or you’re a long-time festival fanatic, you’ll likely have heard of the London Film Festival’s ‘Surprise Film’. ★★★☆☆ As a part of its exciting, often overflowing events roster, the LFF Surprise Film screening is exactly what it sounds like. You purchase […]