Gorilla Film Magazine • 10th June 2014

Jimmy’s Hall and Ken Loach Q&A

What is so dangerous about a tin hall in a country bog? This is the question touched upon in Ken Loach’s latest feature, Jimmy’s Hall, naturally steeped in further philosophising and musings on the way in which fear and intolerance breed blind and wilful hostility.

Flickfeast • 6th May 2014

Sundance London: Obvious Child

Expanded from a 2009 short film by the same name, created by Robespierre with fellow screenwriters Anna Bean and Karen Maine, they originally set out to make a kind of film that they did not really see being represented anywhere.

Flickfeast • 28th April 2014

Sundance London: Frank

It’s the well-known story, the familiar dream of making it big as a musician and leaving your old, ordinary life far behind. Such is the situation we find Jon in, played by Domhnall Gleeson, an office drone chained to his desk job who is desperately seeking some hallowed musical inspiration...

Tongue Loose • 21st February 2014

Berlinale: Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?

Gondry sits down in conversation with linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky to discuss, among other things, memories, language, childhood, astronomy and inspiration. The result of this animated-bolex camera footage hybrid is both thought-provoking and highly original.

Tongue Loose • 19th February 2014

Berlinale: Nymphomaniac Vol. I

In typical Lars von Trier fashion, the buzz around his most recent two-part project has been steeped in hype and controversy. This is, however, his show and he is completely in control of its unfolding.

White Coffee Magazine • 16th February 2014

Cinema Review: Inside Llewyn Davis

The Coen brothers, sibling auteurs extraordinaire, are no strangers to throwing up on screen the lives of the marginalised and the disenchanted. The latest addition to the Coen’s pretty flawless song sheet, Inside Llewyn Davis, is a through and through ‘rags to rags’ tale, the film itself an elegy to the eponymous solo musician’s inability to get a break.

Tongue Loose • 15th February 2014

Berlinale: Boyhood

Although we have seen the release of many Richard Linklater films over the years (School of Rock, Before Sunset and Before Midnight among them), there is one that precedes them all.Winning both the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas and Berliner Morgenpost Reader's Jury Award at this year's 64th Berlinale International Film Festival, he presents a twelve year long labour of love.

Gorilla Film Magazine Blog • 14th November 2013

57th London Film Festival: Only Lovers Left Alive

There seems to be an undying fascination in gothic cinema with exploring the nature of the eternal relationships shared by immortal creatures – how they begin, how they last, how they are moulded by the passing of time.

Gorilla Film Magazine Blog • 5th November 2013

57th London Film Festival: Starred Up

The latest offering from director David Mackenzie delivers to the screen a frank addition to the prison genre of film, following teenage offender Eric Love.

Gorilla Film Magazine Blog • 29th October 2013

57th London Film Festival: The Double

The Double may only be Richard Ayoade’s second directorial credit, but it is likely his most artistic offering yet. This brief whirlwind of affairs, adapted from the Dostoyevsky novella of the same name, follows the increasing misfortune that befalls one Simon James after he meets his doppelganger.

Guestlist Network • 15th October 2012

56th London Film Festival: Ginger & Rosa

The year is 1962, and the world is going to end. In a Cold War era London, 17-year old Ginger is becoming increasingly unravelled by the reality that at any moment the whole world could be catapulted into annihilation in a burst of Soviet-American rivalry.

Guestlist Network • 23rd July 2012

Cinema Review: The Dark Knight Rises

On the 20th July 2012, millions descended in their droves to witness what was foretold to be the epic conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Along with a buzzing sense of excitement and anticipation, many questions were hanging in the air.