british film

Coming-of-age stories tend to revolve around unrequited love, popping one’s cherry or the big journey of self-discovery. However, Hillary Shakespeare’s directorial debut, Soundtrack to Sixteen, offers a different perspective that all teens…

'This is what Sesame Street would be like if it was set in Scotland.'

This is art as liberation, as testimony, as painful truth.

Paddy Considine’s second feature Journeyman will be released by Studiocanal on 16th February 2018. Considine not only wrote and directed the film but also stars alongside Jodie Whittaker(Upcoming Doctor Who), Anthony Welsh (My Brother The…

Bob Hoskins was a deceptively nuanced actor, hiding great depths behind a permanently frayed temper that sees his characters go into flat out rage in seconds. As eye-catching as these explosions prove, they only succeed because he layers in…

Fifty years on, Darling is a very different film to the modish, fashion conscious drama that so nakedly tried to seize the zeitgeist of the swinging 60s on first release. The height of style then, epitomised in Julie Christie’s restlessly…

John May (Eddie Marsan) is a council worker with a particularly important job; to find any living relatives of solitary deceased people in the borough and, if unsuccessful, arrange the funeral and burial or cremation of these people. John…

Trying to fulfil an epic pub crawl with the ringleader being a bit of idiot sounds like an normal Saturday night, perhaps destined for disaster. However, for British film fans, this is a night on the lash everyone has been looking…

After Hitch, Wedding Crashers and – most recently – Crazy Stupid Love, the wingman/buddy movie is slowly coming into vogue, establishing a canon all of its own. Though How to Stop Being a Loser treads very similar (read: derivative) ground,…

Warning: this review contains spoilers! John le Carré knows a thing or two about spying. Between 1960 - 1964 the acclaimed author worked as an intelligence officer for MI6 (following two years service at MI5), having his career swiftly…