1.5/5 · 2022
Master Gardener
Venice Film Festival 12 – PalaBiennale This film hinges on one of my biggest gripes in cinema, having a relationship at its core that has virtually no development. The film asks...
Published 5 September 2022
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1.5/5 · 2022
Venice Film Festival 12 – PalaBiennale This film hinges on one of my biggest gripes in cinema, having a relationship at its core that has virtually no development. The film asks...
Published 5 September 2022
4/5 · 2022
Venice Film Festival 7 – PalaBiennale Bardo, much like its official title, is a lot. The film doesn’t just throw you in the deep end, it completely submerges you in dense metaph...
Published 4 September 2022
4.5/5 · 2022
Venice Film Festival 6 – PalaBiennale TÁR is a beast of a film. Much like an orchestra and its conductor, Todd Field masterfully composes this cinematic journey so delicately an...
Published 4 September 2022
3.5/5 · 2022
Venice Film Festival 3 – PalaBiennale “Elvis is my Hitler” There’s a lot going on in this and while it’s all good, it just never really comes together as much as you want it to....
Published 2 September 2022
3.5/5 · 2022
Venice Film Festival 2 – Sala Giardino Oliver Hermanus’ Living, unbeknownst to me until watching, is a remake of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Ikaru. Having never seen the latter, it b...
Published 1 September 2022
2.5/5 · 2022
Venice Film Festival 1 Sala Darsena Still in shock that I’m actually writing a review from Venice Film Festival but here we go. Princess tells the story of a young Nigerian woma...
Published 1 September 2022
4.5/5 · 2022
“He was a libra moon” I loved Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby and am totally not surprised that she completely stole the show here. She made what might be cringey or forced “youth”...
Published 24 August 2022
4/5 · 2021
After Yang is both a departure and continuation from Kogonada's previous film Columbus. Aesthetically it follows on from Columbus with the mindnumbingly gorgeous static cinemato...
Published 22 August 2022
4/5 · 2022
Jordan Peele's Nope is yet another hit from the innovative horror director. This time he takes his skills in horror to the skies to wonderful results. Far more ambitious in scop...
Published 17 August 2022
1.5/5 · 2022
Look, I really wanted to like this. I thought the abhorrent amount hate this film is getting was a residual effect of people just hating the MCU lately, but alas, this film isn’...
Published 26 July 2022
3.5/5 · 2022
Yet another addition into the everexpanding MCU, Ms. Marvel introduces one more young, relatable and endearing hero into the fold. Without a doubt the best part of this show is...
Published 21 July 2022
3.5/5 · 2022
So, the latest addition to the MCU has just dropped and with it comes many conflicted feelings once again. The film is plastered from start to finish with Taikaisms, it's stuffe...
Published 9 July 2022
4/5 · 2022
I'll admit I was highly apprehensive heading into this film. I'm not the biggest Baz Luhrman fan in the world, I have a deep respect for the films he's made but there's never be...
Published 2 July 2022
3/5 · 2022
Somewhere within this 6hour event there lives a concise and powerful 2hour film, but sadly the filler and bloated nature of the latest Star Wars Disney+ show leaves it feeling u...
Published 27 June 2022
4/5 · 2022
The newest instalment into Cooper Raiff's filmography has secured him as one of my favourite up and coming directors. With both his cinematic outings there's this rare quality t...
Published 21 June 2022
2.5/5 · 2022
Damn the animation in 1995 really went hard. As far as corporate cash grabs go, Lightyear actually presents an interesting premise on its surface. The film that was made is actu...
Published 19 June 2022
5/5 · 2022
So, this film has been out for a while, yet it has only come to the UK recently and while waiting to watch this it's been hard to avoid the overwhelming praise this film has rec...
Published 26 May 2022
3/5 · 2022
(Provisional score, I can see this moving up and down 1 star) For the longest time now the biggest critique facing the biggest cinematic franchise in history is how “samey” ever...
Published 10 May 2022
3/5 · 2022
Moon Knight brings Oscar Isaac into the MCU and it’s all the better for it, however it also brings a whole lot of inconsistency. Reflecting on this show, if Oscar Isaac wasn’t i...
Published 5 May 2022
1/5 · 2022
Someone please just tell Sony to sell the SpiderMan characters back to Marvel. Morbius is another fantastic addition into the catalogue of Sony SpiderMan films that completely b...
Published 15 April 2022
2.5/5 · 2021
I must've watched a different film from everyone else, cause this was fine, not a best picture front runner. On the surface this film could've been fantastic (and one I should'v...
Published 28 March 2022
5/5 · 2022
I'm simply in awe of this film. In a time where we're saturated with the onslaught of comic book films that seem to rehash the same ideas over and over, regurgitating the same s...
Published 5 March 2022
3/5 · 2022
<iGFF WATCH 1</i This would've made a fantastic play. The Outfit is a smart, witty crime thriller helmed by a delightful performance from Mark Rylance. Penned by Graham Moore, a...
Published 5 March 2022
5/5 · 2021
<iGFF WATCH 2</i "I feel like a spectator in my own life." This film best put, feels like a mirror to the audience. We're not all Julie, but in a sense we very much are. Life's...
Published 5 March 2022