Posts By Simon Kinnear
Cannes: Unsung stars will shine anew, promises Flix Premiere
May 18, 2016 | Simon KinnearEvery film deserves its “Andy Warhol moment of fame”. That was the message from Martin Warner, launching his new VOD venture, Flix Premiere, in a keynote speech at Cannes today.
Strictly speaking, the company doesn’t view its “online cineplex” as … Read More
VOD film review: Tangerine
March 17, 2016 | Simon KinnearSean Baker’s energetic smartphone film is consistently smart and never phoney.Read More
VOD film review: The Walk
February 2, 2016 | Simon KinnearRobert Zemeckis’ film can find no better way to tell Philippe Petit’s story than Man on Wire.Read More
15 reasons why Elf is the greatest Christmas movie of modern times
December 1, 2015 | Simon KinnearEverybody has their Yuletide favourites, from It’s A Wonderful Life to Die Hard. Quite right; they’re classics. But few recent films have broken through to movie fans’ all-time Christmas playlist… with one notable exception.
In only 12 years since it … Read More
VOD film review: Inside Out
November 16, 2015 | Simon KinnearA piece of pure cinematic joy.Read More
VOD film review: Slow West
November 4, 2015 | Simon KinnearOld meets new in this thoughtful remix of the classic Western, starring Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn.Read More
Beasts unleashed and Junun on song: Is this the month when VOD comes of age?
October 14, 2015 | Simon KinnearThis Friday, Netflix subscribers will be able to watch the hotly-tipped Beasts Of No Nation, directed by True Detective’s Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba, a mere week after a limited cinema run. Meanwhile, those with MUBI … Read More
MUBI film review: Junun
October 9, 2015 | Simon KinnearPaul Thomas Anderson’s documentary capturing a collaboration between Jonny Greenwood, Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and Indian band Rajasthan Express is off-the-cuff, utterly relaxed filmmaking.Read More
VOD film review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
August 20, 2015 | Simon KinnearAndrew Dominik’s visually stunning study of myth, fame and violence is a slow, assured, brilliantly acted Western.Read More
Chaplin on VOD: Moving on to bigger things (1920s)
August 15, 2015 | Simon KinnearAs Charlie Chaplin makes his UK VOD debut, we look at the director’s pioneering work during the 1920s.
It’s easy to forget that, when Charlie Chaplin made The Kid in 1921, he was already a veteran – the star and … Read More