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Kitty Green's masterful The Assistant is a quiet, understated masterpiece that could be easily dismissed by those not attuned to its brilliance and power. Te...

The revenge film is an exhausted genre most often lacking in originality and nuance. When films like John Wick can build an entire revenge premise around a d...

Pitch Perfect 3 is a narrative mess. Completely unnecessary and yet brilliantly hilarious and a real feelgood film. Let's be honest. If you are watching Pitc...

2013's Frozen was a box office behemoth taking $1.3bn globally and becoming a beloved and iconic film for a generation of children (and adults?). With its wi...

Olga Preobrazhenskaya is probably the first female of Soviet Russia. She has a long career as both an actress and director, and most notably, she worked both...

Marie-Louise Iribe was something of a prodigious pioneer in early cinema. As well as directing she also acted and produced (setting up her own production com...

In 1943 with World War II threatening the existence of Major League Baseball owners of clubs, notably Walter Harvey (owner of the Cubs) agrees to recruit wom...

2020 could be a landmark year for both superhero films and female directors. It comes as no surprise that 2020 is going to be jam-packed with superhero films...

Two things are missing from Sarah Daggar-Nickson's excellent debut A Vigilante. Violence towards women and gratuitously violent scenes of retribution. The ab...

Thanks to the success of IT Chapter One (2017), we are going through something of a renaissance of Stephen King big-screen adaptation. With IT Chapter Two, D...

There is a moment in Girls of the Sun when the film's two main characters, Bahar and Mathilde, discuss their children. Both have been separated and both expr...

Motherhood (released as Egg in the US) is a comedy about two old art school friends who, having not seen each other since then, have arranged a reunion of so...

Rural life has been fertile ground in recent years for British filmmakers. Clio Barnard's excellent Dark River joins Hope Dickson Leach's The Levelling and F...

Hustlers is a celebration of feminity, female friendship and a part of society too often overlooked and kept down by the world. Set across different time per...

High Life, Claire Denis' first English language film, plays out like a thought experiment. Aboard a spaceship on a mission to extract energy from a Black Hol...

I've always felt that the true test of a documentaries quality is whether you enjoy the film despite not being interested in the subject matter. If the direc...

Leave No Trace is pure, essential cinema. I was awestruck and dumbfounded by the sheer brilliance of Debra Granik's follow up to Winter's Bone (2010). It too...

The 2019 London Film Festival runs from 2nd - 13th October this year. The full schedule of the festival is now out and with hundreds of films playing across ...

With a successful career as a writer, producer and director across a range of films including comedy, mockumentary and and documentaries on the history of th...

How is Lois Weber not a widely recognised pioneer of early cinema? That is question that kept coming back to me whilst reading this latest release in the Con...