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Review: Villa Touma
As part of Bristol Palestine Film Festival’s ‘Impact of Conflict’ season, Watershed is screening five Palestinian films between the 13th and 22nd of March. Here’s Nick Benson’s review of Suha Arraf’s...
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Review: White God
Like a high-budget The Room, Kornél Mundruczó’s Hungarian film White God fails to hit any of the right notes, resulting in a messy film that disconcerts only through how awkwardly it plays out: not due...
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Review: The Gunman
The Gunman, like a rotting banana bathed in rich chocolate, makes its foulness known after the first few chews.The producers must have believed that throwing a lot of money over the screenplay would...
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Review: Return to Haifa
As part of Bristol Palestine Film Festival’s ‘Impact of Conflict’ season, Watershed is screening five Palestinian films between the 13th and 22nd of March. Here’s Adam Barnett’s review of Kassem...
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The Untold and the Unexpected: Palestine in Film
Despite the politicized context that connects the four chosen films in ‘Impact of Conflict’, Bristol Palestine Film Festival’s latest season of cinematic offerings, the compilation is not easy to...
View ArticleReview: Wild Tales
Wild Tales is a succession of six different stories, all taking place in today’s Argentina, in which the fates of vengeful wives, corrupt officials and shady mafiosos meet, resulting in an exuberant...
View ArticleMovies of the Month: April
While We’re Young (Released 3rd April)Among the abundance of big blockbuster sequels out this month including both Fast & Furious 7 (3rd April) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (23rd April) comes this...
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Review: Mommy
Steve Després (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) is a rowdy and charismatic teenager with attention deficit disorder, recently expelled from his education centre after committing arson. At the beginning of the...
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Review: The Falling
Carol Morley’s follow-up to her breakthrough hit Dreams of a Life tells the surreal story of a fainting pandemic that hit a English boarding school in 1969. The film is a take on familiar childhood...
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Review: Zoe Lyons – Mustard Cutter
‘Everything in life looks better with a bobble on it.’Zoe Lyons’s closing line is an accurate articulation of her performance: witty, light-hearted and slightly foolish.Performing in the Lantern...
View ArticleReview: Macbeth
Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth stars Michael Fassbender, with Marrion Cotillard playing Lady Macbeth. Premiering at Cannes, the film comes as follow-up to his true life serial-killer drama debut...
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Best of 2015: Amy
Months before what would have been her thirty-second birthday, Asif Kapaida presented us with an overwhelmingly upsetting documentary about the troubled life and tragic death of Amy Winehouse. Told...
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Review: Everest
“Everest is another beast altogether” –Rob Hall (Jason Clarke)With Everest, director Baltasar Kormákur has managed to create a truly exhilarating film based on the 1996 disaster that keeps you on the...
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Review: Crimson Peak
Vivid, alluring and chilling. This gothic romance stars Mia Wasikowska as Edith, an aspiring writer in New York, who finds no pleasure in the frivolity of the social sphere. However, there is something...
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Best of 2015: Ex Machina
Sci-Fi is a genre that teeters of the precipice of predictability. It can go one of two ways: it can leave you questioning your very being in beautiful existential crisis only the great philosophers...
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Halloween Bucket List: Paranormal Films
Hopefully you all survived the best international horrors previously listed and are ready for some new spine shattering films. Paranormal movies are personally my favourite as they are sure to deliver...
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Best of 2015: Inside Out
When we watch a Pixar film we expect something special. The studio has become famous for taking strange concepts and tackling them with a great amount of heart and wit. Inside Out is no different....
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Review: Spectre
Well, here we have it. After months of hype and promotional tours inflated by the critical and financial success of Skyfall, it is Spectre time. Here is a film that promises to combine the strengths of...
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Gig Review: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ Thekla – 16/11/2015
If pushed to choose one thing which frustrates me most when watching a gig, it’s being surrounded by a crowd that doesn’t want to dance. Admittedly, some bands call for more movement than others, but...
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Review: Love
Love is a film that is – in every sense – explicit. Noé achieves this through his transparent presentation of human relationships, something which he has criticised the film industry for not addressing...
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