The Wild Goose Lake

Yi’nan Diao, China, 2019 There’s nothing new in this gangsters v gangsters v cops noir, but it’s stylish and enjoyable,…

The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers, USA/Canada, 2019 Two lighthouse keepers brooding on a wet and gloomy rock in 1890 Maine. Clearly, this is…

Hirokazu Kore-eda, France, 2019 Who is Sarah??! Someone from the past, a clearly significant figure in the relationship between mother…

O Deep Thought computer,” he said, “the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to…

Germinal Roaux, Switzerland, 2018 Windswept, stark and cold. Both the place and her life. Fortuna is a 14 year-old Ethiopian…

(Portrait of a Lady on Fire) Céline Sciamma, France, 2019 I found it hard to follow the subtitles for this…

Back in the spring of 2011, I was looking for something else to do. I wanted to get more involved…

In 2015, I made the leap into the unknown and left the UK, the country where I’d been born, raised…

In the middle of the shitstorm life was throwing at me, I decided I was coping so well with things…

I’ve been to the USA three times this decade, to see places but mostly to see people – as a…