‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ review: Little to love beyond Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell’s performances in Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s listless adaptation | LFF
A spirit of thoughtless anachronism looms over Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Netflix’s crude and cynical attempt at seeing if some of the steam... Read More
Paddy Mulholland
Paddy Mulholland is a 28-year-old movie blogger originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, now living in London, England, where he’s currently studying for a BA(Hons) in Journalism. He first got into movies 15 years ago, and loves nothing better than sitting front row at a press screening of a movie he knows he’ll probably never get a chance to see again. He also enjoys the queerest of queer culture, eating way too much, and being a dirtbag on Twitter.
‘No Bears’ review: Jafar Panahi turns the camera on himself in powerful, subtly playful examination of limits personal, political and artistic | LFF
The remarkable prolificacy of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and the even-more-remarkable spirit of subversiveness that has only burgeoned in his work since his arrest and... Read More
‘Nanny’ review: Predictability hobbles what could have been a fascinating take on the horror of trauma | LFF
It is both the blessing and the burden of just about every modern horror movie that it must be about trauma. It’s not just an... Read More
London Film Festival Review: Rose Glass’ slow-burn horror ‘Saint Maud’ is a potent debut feature
As the nights turn longer and the weather turns colder, here’s a happy thought: at least things aren’t as bad for you as they are... Read More
London Film Festival Review: ‘The House of Us’ is an utter delight
It’s no wonder kids find us adults so baffling so much of the time. After all, even us curmudgeonly critics once were children, accepting the... Read More
London Film Festival Review: The arresting and experimental ‘Krabi, 2562’
An insider’s view of her home country intertwines with an outsider’s view in Krabi, 2562, an accessible experimental work from Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers. She brings... Read More
LFF Review: Alfre Woodard is mesmerizing in ‘Clemency’
A stark, sombre drama with barely a second’s worth of levity, Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency is heavy, punishing stuff. It courts the kind of emotional extremes... Read More
LFF Review: The fascinating, abstract ‘Monos’ marvels as much as it confounds
There are monsters, and then there are monsters! Here, on this fertile, bounteous planet, the monsters take a combative stance against the earth that gave... Read More
LFF Review: Shoddy, messy ‘Little Monsters’ is a waste of Lupita Nyong’o
Little did Lupita Nyong’o know, I suppose, that when she signed onto a zombie comedy called Little Monsters, the zombies would be behind the camera,... Read More
Review: ‘After the Wedding’ is a dull and predictable melodrama despite a radiant Michelle Williams
Funny how things have a tendency to endure when there’s a bit of money behind them. Funnier still how that tendency barely seems to dwindle... Read More
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