Grimmfest – Manchester’s Horror Film Festival
Grimmfest is returning to Manchester in its 10th year to celebrate independent horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. It takes place on the 4th-7th of October at the Odeon Manchester Great Northern. The festival promises to be a thrilling weekend. Festival coordinators, Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones created Grimmfest 10 years ago to showcase horror films […]
Review: Slender Man
One of the simplest ways to realise what you think about a film is to ask how it made you feel. In the case of this sluggish, ugly, and disassembled product known as the Slender Man movie, I just feel unequivocally angry. At one point during the film, I found myself demanding that it make […]
Review: Crazy Rich Asians
This week marked the UK release of 2018’s much anticipated film Crazy Rich Asians directed by Jon M. Chu. A young couple, Rachel (Constance Wu) and Nick (Henry Golding), travel to Singapore for a friend’s wedding and to meet Nick’s family, who, unbeknownst to Rachel, are insanely rich and not the most welcoming. Crazy Rich […]
First Watch: Arrival
Riveting and enigmatic, Arrival is a wonderful addition to the elite club of sci-fi movies that, though fictitious, have a certain touch of plausibility to it
Review: Skate Kitchen
Coming-of-age flicks are the new ‘post-apocalyptic young adult drama’; they’re everywhere. Skate Kitchen, however, has a lot more going for it than its synopsis suggests. Originally a short film, then a documentary and, finally, a fictional story based on reality, Skate Kitchen is the brainchild of director Crystal Moselle and all-girl, New York-based skate collective […]
Review: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before is a wonderfully cringe-worthy film and reminiscent of the fleeting yet intense crushes we all have had, and still have. The film, based on the book by Jenny Han, was released on Netflix in August 2018. The film follows a 16-year-old, Lara-Jean, as she tries to navigate the […]
Review: Bodyguard
The unmissable hit drama is among the BBC’s recent wave of sublime television-making and features top-rate acting that will keep us gripped to our screens
Review: The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair
Let down by its source material, Lyn Greene’s adaptation of Joël Dicker novel La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert also fails to inspire, writes Adrian Kanyoli
Review: The Meg
Shark cliches galore, The Meg is an unfortunate cash grab which is not the blockbuster that the original shark films of the 1970s were, writes James Gill
Review: Avengers – Infinity War
“The perfect beginning of the end to a decade of film that I and many others hold very dear to our hearts”
Review: Ghost Stories
Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s adaptation of their acclaimed stage play is a superbly haunting and unnerving collection of menacing tales
Review: A Fantastic Woman
Sebastian Lelio’s Oscar-winning drama is captivating and poignant, writes Gina Agnew
Calling all film students, cinephiles and critics – Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival 2018
Don’t miss the chance to get involved with this year’s Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival!
Review: Gringo
From the Edgerton brothers, a hit-and-miss film with a compelling moral message and a very weak plot
The Big Lebowski at 20: the story of a rug
A rug that not only tied the room together, but also the narrative
Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival 2018
The International Lift-Off Film Festival is coming back to Manchester at the end of the month to showcase high quality independent film
Review: Game Night
Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in an innovative action-comedy from the writers of Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming
In Conversation with Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay talks about her latest film, the current state of cinema, and the time Joaquin Phoenix punched an extra