“Regardless of his arguably over-eager approach, Daniel Barber’s The Keeping Room is an incredibly well-crafted update of the classic American western” – Our London Film Festival critic takes a look at The Keeping Room, staring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling.
“Despite creating something that stands as both entertaining and deeply affecting, Ayer has sacrificed the stability of his film in favour of a more disconcerting grittiness that leaves a profoundly bad taste in the mouth” – Ben Robins looks at Brad Pitt’s latest star turn in Fury.
Ben Robins looks at the entries for Best Comedy in Southampton International Film Festival.
“To call Whiplash a tense film may well prove to be the understatement of the century” says Ben Robbins.
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Perry’s delightfully dry humour powers the narration on a self-aware tone that’s as filled with winks as it is laughs, creating something both fun and consistently intelligent, says Ben Robins.
The influence that Spanish speaking nations have had on the horror genre in the past…
There’s a lot of potential in the characters shown on screen and yet it doesn’t always fully come across because of the film’s calamitous structure, says Ben Robins from the London Film Festival.
For a film so concerned with identity it is strange that The Equalizer’s chief problem is that it has no discernible personalty of it’s own, says Harrison Abbott.
Despite a brief running time, Life After Beth still manages to feel like it’s dragging its central joke out way past it’s threshold, says Harrison Abbott.
Follow for a listings of Union Films screenings, including the highly-anticipated X-Men marathon on Saturday.
’71 is the work of a seasoned pro, bursting from the fresh-face of an upcoming talent, says Ben Robins from the London Film Festival.
By failing to knit the two genres together closely enough, Spring’s tonal shifts come across as rather random, trampling all of the well-built emotion previously set out in their wake, says Ben Robins.
Now getting into his 80s, Boorman returns once again with another unpredictable twist, says Ben Robins from the London Film Festival.