Anyone who is able to take a relatively likeable but slight novel aimed at young adults, and turn it into a riveting adventure that the entire family can enjoy is worth paying attention to, so it only stands to reason the people behind Enola Holmes are Jack Thorn, the writer tasked with continuing the legacy…

“You’re still a bit small to know all about life” Youthful innocence and childhood mischief are the two fundamental concepts that blend together in Aniki-Bóbó, the incredible and highly-influential directorial debut for Manoel de Oliveira, undeniably his country’s most important filmmaker, and someone whose name evokes the very idea of both cultural fortitude and artistic…

Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci are two names I never thought I’d read in the same sentence, which is only made more curious by the fact that they’re both fascinating writers who are voices of their generation, observers of the human condition that used their craft to create varied tapestries of the world they saw…

There are a few qualities I love about Hatari! – the upbeat sense of humour that correlates to the idea of sitting around a campfire on a warm African night, the lovely score composed by maestro Henry Mancini, the beautiful animals that trot throughout the film, the fact that that Red Buttons plays a character…

I’d like to get inside Karel Zeman’s head and look around for a while. There are few filmmakers whose relatively obscurity outside of more devoted artistic circles bewilder me quite as much as him – throughout his career, Zeman produced some of the most fascinating works of art ever committed to film, quite literally buildings…

Much of the publicity around Monos, the audacious new film from bright you talent Alejandro Landes, has mentioned a few works as being fundamental in inspiring this film to come about, most notably Elem Klimov’s horrifying wartime odyssey Come and See and William Golding’s seminal coming-of-age horror adventure Lord of the Flies – these are…

Frederick and Alice Thornton (Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean) are a pair of British merchant expatriates in Jamaica who are raising their five children in one of the small coastal towns that they occupy as part of the growing European settlement that shows very little sign of stopping, especially through the colonial expansion that is…

Lord Jim is a strange specimen of a film, as it was composed of a wide range of very promising aspects – it featured Peter O’Toole’s first epic after his star-making turn in Lawrence of Arabia and a clear attempt to capitalize on the cultural zeitgeist his revolutionary performance inspired in both the industry and…

The Walt Disney Company found itself in quite a predicament around the time Bedknobs and Broomsticks went into production – they had seen the overwhelming success of Mary Poppins, and how this brand of heartfelt storytelling that blended the real world with live-action was captivating to all viewers, young and old alike. In many ways,…

Where could we possibly hope to start with Céline and Julie Go Boating? It wouldn’t be an uncommon occurrence to be left utterly bewildered by this film, and it doesn’t really matter if it is a loss for words out of sheer amazement, or through perplexed anger towards whatever this almost inconceivably strange film put…