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VOD film review: Bait
January 11, 2020 | Ivan Radford
This gorgeously filmed study of gentrification is a spiky, timely and tension-filled drama.Read More
VOD film review: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
December 21, 2019 | Ivan Radford
This deliciously dark horror brings a chillingly fresh spin on Santa Claus.Read More
VOD film review: Carancho
November 8, 2019 | Ivan Radford
Ricardo Darin shines in this hard-hitting Argentine noir.Read More
VOD film review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
March 24, 2019 | Ivan Radford
Powell and Pressburger’s remarkable war epic explores friendship, life and patience with compassion.Read More
VOD film review: Black Narcissus
March 23, 2019 | Ivan Radford
Powell and Pressburger’s study of faith, duty and desire is a riveting, immersive plummet into melodrama.Read More
VOD film review: Breathless (À Bout de Souffle, 1960)
March 16, 2019 | Leslie Byron Pitt
Godard’s eternally cool Breathless is cinema’s definitive rule-breaker – both literally and figuratively.Read More
VOD film review: A Cambodian Spring
February 10, 2019 | Ivan Radford
This documentary about protests in Cambodia is an engaging, urgent directorial debut from Christopher Kelly.Read More
VOD film review: Stockholm My Love
June 16, 2017 | Laurence Boyce
Mark Cousins’ tender and evocative work is both haunting and beautiful.
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VOD film review: Shell
January 7, 2017 | Ivan Radford
A calm and absorbing coming-of-age drama, shot through with a heartbreaking sense of tangible isolation.Read More
VOD film review: Las Acacias
December 17, 2016 | Ivan Radford
This slow, absorbing road trip is an understated relationship drama that soon finds it own charming gear.Read More
