Charlie Nicholson
London Film Festival Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite
I never thought I’d say it, but this is the closest that Director Yorgos Lanthimos is ever likely to come to a fluffy rom-com....
Halloween: 40 years on
Days on from David Gordon Green’s long-awaited sequel to Carpenter’s 1978 classic, I’m still very conflicted about Halloween. On the one hand, it switches...
London Film Festival Review: Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning
Some films resist an in-depth review. With Burning, the sentiment is two-fold, for not only is Lee Chang-Dong’s newest feature so crucially dependent upon...
Venom: 2018’s Best Comedy?
I’ll say this. It had an effective trailer.
In this situation, ‘effective’, does not mean ‘good’ - the sight of an ten-foot slimeboy terrorising a...
Wooden Overcoats: the podcast you need to know
I’ll pitch it to you with a question. What do you get when you throw the town from The Vicar of Dibley, the leading...
Venue reviews: TAG
For all the superficiality promised by its premise, TAG delivers just the sort of overblown idiocy you might ask of a summer blockbuster. Like...