The Spectacular Now review (London Film Festival)
Stark and gritty, this may be the most down-to-earth teen romance ever, filled with touches of unpredictable, inescapable reality.
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Electro Chaabi review (London Film Festival)
An inexcusably blinkered documentary look at a modern youth movement in Cairo that utterly ignores how it cuts girls and women out of its quest for freedom.
London photo of the day: Vietnamese spring rolls
Lunch today, from the Real Food Festival at Southbank…
Mystery Road movie review (London Film Festival)
Touched by dry humor and elegant action, this is a marvelous blend of classic detective noir and modern Outback Western.
As I Lay Dying review (London Film Festival)
If this isn’t a deliberate parody of furiously solemn, self-conscious artistic pretension, it’s an accidental one.
have you ever attended a film festival?
If you haven’t and you’ve wanted to, what’s stopped you? If you have, how did you like it? How did it differ from ordinary moviegoing? Would you attend again?
cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
The Summit trailer: go telling what happened on the mountain
Damn. Looks like I missed this both at the London Film Festival last year and at Sheffield Doc/Fest this spring. Crap.
Wadjda trailer: see this film
I’ve already reviewed this wonderful film, but I wanted to remind you that it’s opening soon (in the U.K., at least), and also remind you that you do not want to miss it.
feel-goodest movie ever (The Sapphires review)
You’ve seen this story before, but never pulled off with so much joie de vivre.
