Set in New England in the 17th century it's the story of a family of English settlers who are banished from their community and set up a farm at the edge of a dense forest. Then the youngest child goes missing.
A highly accomplished debut from exciting, new filmmaker Robert Eggers. A film with a sure and authentic sense of place that builds up an almost unbearable atmosphere of dread and suspicion.
An excellent cast includes Ralph (Finchy from The…
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The Witch 2015
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Midnight Special 2016
Jeff Nichols fourth feature Midnight Special is a smart and inventive sci-fi chase movie that spends the majority of its running time keeping both its characters and its audience in the dark as to its ultimate destination.
The film opens with a news report about the abduction of an eight year old boy and then cuts to two men and a mysterious goggles-wearing child in a motel room with cardboard covered windows. We soon learn that one of the men…
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SuperBob 2015
Saw the very funny and enjoyable superhero comedy SuperBob at the LOCO Film Festival back in January.
A very British take on the genre, which might lack the big special effects and set pieces you'd normally expect in this kind of film (Brett Goldstein amusingly honest answer, during the Q&A after, on how to make a superhero film on a low budget -"Set it on his day off") makes up for it with a lot of laughs and plenty of charm. Brett Goldstein is also excellent as the caped civil servant and is supported by a solid cast.Translated from by -
Paddington 2014
So despite all the odds of it turning out to be a crass commercialisation of a quintessentially British story and after some worrying trailers that only strengthened that fear, Paddington turns out to be one of the most surprising films of the year.
A wonderfully funny and delightfully inventive family film. Any worry that Mighty Boosh/Bunny and the Bull director Paul King's idiosyncratic quirks might be stifled in a larger more commercial project is unfounded as this is a joy…Translated from by
