Mixing raw and confronting ‘life on the skids’ drama with touches of the surreal, British director Andrea Arnold’s impressively ambitious if uneven, Bird will entrance many but leave some a little confused. The film centres on 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) who lives in a highly dysfunctional household with her sullen brother, Hunter (Jason Buda) who seems to be part of
Read moreBecoming Led Zeppelin is a detailed, well-researched but sanitised and overly methodical reminiscence about the rock legends. Also, unfortunately, there’s a bit more truth to the film’s title than we might have wanted. It only covers the legendary British band’s formation and early touring and recording years and barely emerges from the 1960’s. Consequently, this film feels more like the
Read moreThe inventive, witty, energetic and occasionally gory Companion from writer/ director Drew Hancock is an early instalment in what will no doubt be a growing movie subgenre, the ‘personal robot thriller’. Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is a young woman who we see at the start of the film in a ‘meet cute’ at a supermarket with the goofy Josh (Jack Quaid,
Read moreIt’s alarming to think that it’s been nearly a quarter of a century since the ditzy but charming and unstoppable Bridget Jones first bumbled her way onto cinema screens. The film Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), which was based on the successful Helen Fielding novel was a sufficiently big hit to spawn multiple sequels. While Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason from
Read moreBabygirl is a bold, visually seductive, funny but repetitive psychological drama from Bodies, Bodies, Bodies director Halina Reijin. The film touches on a range of themes including sexual hang-ups, office politics, lifelong trauma, social rules and the collision of different forms of power – particularly corporate and gender – in the uncertain context of a changing economy and society. The
Read morePerhaps only Star Wars fans rival Bob Dylan fans in their adoration for their subject. Consequently, a film such as the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown was always going to be met with rabid expectation and scrutiny. One of the biggest questions was ‘what sort of music biopic would it be?’. So many, including the Ray Charles and Whitney Houston
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