1917 (2019/20)

This week I got the amazing opportunity to see, I think, the first UK screening of Sam Mendes' new filmĀ 1917. A story set in the Great War, it's being touted as a one take, real time film, that moniker isn't exactly accurate, and not just because it obviously wasn't actually shot in one take, most…Read more 1917 (2019/20)

Leave No Trace (2018)

There was quite a lot of talk about this film last year and it really lived up to the hype. Ben Foster plays a war veteran suffering from PTSD who is raising his daughter Tom, played by an annoyingly good 15 year old Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, in a national park. The basic conceit and questions…Read more Leave No Trace (2018)