Posts By Victoria Curatolo
Why Netflix’s Fear City should be your next box set
August 30, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
The latest documentary series to hit Netflix is Fear City: New York vs the Mafia, a close look at five Mafia families that controlled the city of New York throughout the 1970s and and 1980s – and the FBI informants … Read More
Perfumes: A charming French tale
August 21, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
An unusual meet-cute leads to a beautiful friendship in this charming French tale.Read More
VOD film review: Girlhood (2014, Bande de filles)
July 5, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
Céline Sciamma’s 2014 drama is as poignant now as it’s ever been.Read More
VOD film review: Joan of Arc (2019)
June 19, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
This bold semi-musical biopic is daring but lacklustre in its delivery.
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Don’t go breaking my heart: The lessons we learnt from rom-coms
May 24, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
Romantic comedies have transcended throughout cinema as one of the most successful and crowd-pleasing of all movie genres. Boy meets girl; boy breaks girl’s heart; boy wins girl back. And while this is a narrative that’s grown completely tiresome and … Read More
Ghibli on Netflix: The Cat Returns
March 4, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
This underseen Studio Ghibli animation is a stunning but uneven watch.Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Grace and Frankie Season 6
January 21, 2020 | Victoria Curatolo
The penultimate season of Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda’s mature comedy sees the dynamic duo back on top form.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Santa Girl
December 14, 2019 | Victoria Curatolo
A festive leading lady renders this cringeworthy script somewhat harmless.Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
December 11, 2019 | Victoria Curatolo
This try-hard cheese-fest is all hat and no cattle. Read More
Netflix UK TV Review: Santa Clarita Diet: Season 3
April 3, 2019 | Victoria Curatolo
The third course of this intelligently stupid horror-comedy continues to feed us what we never knew we needed.Read More
