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Comfort and Joy (1984) Review
Comfort and Joy (1984) Director: Bill Forsyth Screenwriter: Bill Forsyth Starring: Bill Paterson, Eleanor David When taking a look at Scottish cinema, one must look no further than the works of Bill Forsyth. Although there had been numerous “Scottish” films prior to Forsyth’s debut in 1979, very few were helmed by Scottish directors and even…
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Out (2020) Pixar Short Film Review
Out (2020) Director: Steven Clay Hunter Screenwriter: Steven Clay Hunter Starring: Bernadette Sullivan, Kyle McDaniel, Caleb Cabrera, Matthew Martin Out is the latest short from Pixar which premiered on Disney+ last week and is the first film to be created by either Pixar or Disney that is centered around an LGBTQ+ character, which is a…
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Uncorked (2020) Review
Uncorked (2020) Director: Prentice Penny Screenwriter: Prentice Penny Starring: Mamoudou Athie, Courtney B. Vance, Niecy Nash, Sasha Compère, Gil Ozeri, Matt McGorry, Meera Rohit Kumbhani Uncorked opens with a witty montage juxtaposing wine making and barbecue meat preparation. Both are food and drink art forms, but one is considered a much higher art to the…
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Calm with Horses (2019) Review
Calm with Horses (2019)Director: Nick RowlandScreenwriter: Joe MurtaghStarring: Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, David Wilmot, Ned Dennehy, Anthony Welsh, Liam Carney, Kiljan Moroney Very reminiscent of the early work of Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace), Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher) and John Michael McDonagh (The Guard), but with a voice entirely its own, Calm with Horses…
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The World’s End (2013) Review
The World’s End (2013) Director: Edgar Wright Screenwriters: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, David Bradley 2013’s The World’s End has been cited by some fans as the most disappointing entry in the Cornetto Trilogy despite a positive reception from critics who welcomed…
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The Full Monty (1997) Review
The Full Monty (1997) Director: Peter Cattaneo Writer: Simon Beaufoy Starring: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Hugo Speer, Lesley Sharp The Full Monty is not just a northern comedy about men who take their clothes off, it is a celebrated film from the height of the UK’s mid-to-late 90s boom period that was nominated…
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Blood Junkies (1993) Review
Blood Junkies (1993) Director: Bruce Naughton Screenwriter: Bruce Naughton Starring: Sean Hay, Mary Goonan Although nowadays low-budget feature films are becoming increasingly more common, it could not have been any different back in nineteen ninety-three when Blood Junkies was released. Inspired by Robert Rodriguez’s micro-budget film El Mariachi, released the year before, screenwriter-director Bruce…
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Billy Elliot (2000) Review
Billy Elliot (2000) Director: Stephen Daldry Screenwriter: Lee Hall Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Stuart Wells It’s been twenty years since Billy Elliot burst onto cinema screens, and its portrait of the North East remains just as moving and inspiring today. It’s a region often depicted as being rather…
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A Field in England (2013) Review
A Field in England (2013)Director: Ben WheatleyScreenwriter: Amy JumpStarring: Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley, Richard Glover, Ryan Pope, Peter Ferdinando, Julian Barratt There’s no doubt that Ben Wheatley is one of the most distinctive, original and prolific British filmmakers working today. His uncompromising, often brutal and hard to pin down filmography makes him a somewhat divisive…
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Hot Fuzz (2007) Review
Hot Fuzz (2007) Director: Edgar Wright Screenwriters: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Bailey, Lucy Punch, Olivia Colman, Jim Broadbent, Alice Lowe, Timothy Dalton 2007’s Hot Fuzz forms the middle entry in the standalone Cornetto Trilogy, which began with 2004’s Shaun of the Dead and concluded with 2013’s The World’s End.…