London photo of the day: Star Command is relocating
Even the space police are abandoning the rundown backwater space station that is the Trocadero.
London Film Festival
The Selfish Giant trailer: so, not a fairy tale, then
Well, this looks depressing. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course.
London photo of the day: gala marquee (before it’s gala)
What the Odeon Leicester Square marquee looks like the morning after a London Film Festival gala screening, when another gala screening is happening that night.
London photo of the day: the Trocadero, a wretched hive of scum and villainy
I can almost hear Mal Reynolds saying to Zoe, “I reckon we best not linger.”
The Fear (La Por) review (London Film Festival)
Brutally blunt in its depiction of domestic violence. I almost wish I hadn’t seen this film, it’s that almost completely unbearable…
Side by Side review (London Film Festival) (world premiere)
Misses more marks than it attempts to hit, but there’s a refreshing sweetness to this child’s-eye view of grief and tragedy.
London photo of the day: the LFF press assembles…
…not quite predawn this morning (though it felt like it) for the London Film Festival press screening of Gravity.
obviously my London Film Festival plan has fallen apart
My brain is fried. I am indescribably exhausted.
Philomena trailer: give Judi Dench back her son!
Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Stephen Frears. So much goodness in yet another story about the inhuman awfulness of the Catholic Church. Hooray, I guess.
All Cheerleaders Die review (London Film Festival)
Twists the high-school revenge story into feminist black magic.
