Something something Covid, something something Groundhog Day. It certainly felt like the latter at times as we once again went without cinemas for an extended period. It did, however, give me a chanc...
“I’m a nice guy.” “I thought you were into it.” “It wasn’t like that.” Cassie has heard every excuse in the book. And she’s tired of it. Emerald Fennell’s film opens with Cassie (Carey Mulligan) bein...
Fired up by the deeply moving Suffragette and the recent press about sexism in Hollywood, I have been thinking about the inequality in an art form that I love so much, I don’t think I could have made...
For fifty years, women of all classes in the United Kingdom protested to parliament for the right for women to vote and were ignored. Repeatedly given false promises, key figures such as Emmeline and...
Now in its 59th year, the London Film Festival (LFF) opens today. The twelve day festival begins with a gala screening of the new Carey Mulligan film Suffragette. Over the course of the festival ther...
Here are some of the films you must watch in October… and a few of the other releases. Suffragette Carey Mulligan plays Maud Watts, a working class washerwoman forced by her inability to accept the i...
Oscar season is slowly creeping up on us and making an early claim for some golden statues is Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette. Focusing on the early members of the British women’...
In Dorset, South of England in 1870 Gabriel Oak comes across a sight that will change the course of his life: the wildly beautiful Bathsheba Everdene laying on her back astride a horse. The lives of ...
Getting a release just in time for serious award consideration is the new film from the Coen Brothers. The film has been around for what seems like an age. It was premiered at Cannes in May and has ...
The blockbuster film season seems to start earlier every year as the major studios try to position their releases away from their rivals. In a bid to maximise the return that has been invested in the...