Beanpole (2019) | Much Ado About Cinema

My final review from Cannes this year, and my debut piece for the excellent Much Ado About Cinema is now here! Beanpole is a haunting, desperate feel that now, even a month and a half later, it still feels haunting. Find the review here

Films to Look Forward To: Volume 3

It’s time for another of my (roughly biannual) round up of what films to look out for in the next few months. Pretty much everything I saw at Cannes has to be up there, so I’m not going to repeat the reviews here – but if you want to have a look at what I…

Late Night (2019)

  When Katherine (Emma Thompson), the host of a failing light night comedy show, hires the unapologetically positive Molly (Mindy Kaling) to liven up her overwhelming white and male writing staff, both women’s lives begin to change in ways neither of them expected. Scripted by star Mindy Kaling, Late Night is a joyous and enjoyable summer comedy that…

Cannes Review: Atlantique (2019)

  Mati Diop’s woozy Atlantique – joint winner of the Grand Prix at this years Festival de Cannes – is story of young love, corruption and inequality, set in a suburb on the Atlantic coast of Senegal. Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) and Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré) are young and in love, but society and circumstance are destined to…

Cannes Review: A Brother’s Love (2019) | Screen Queens

If you want to read possibly the most annoyed review I’ve ever written – with possibly the exception of Mother! – click the link below for my review of A Brother’s Love. Possibly one of the most self indulgent and frankly boring films of the festival. Maybe it was funnier in the original French, I…