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Ashleigh Moore reports from the final day of the Southampton International Film Festival and looks over her highlights of the programme
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The well-made Australian drama may have been chosen for the ‘Thrill’ Gala screening at the London Film Festival, but it’s noticeably lacking in excitement says Film Editor Barnaby Walter
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Lovely Molly is an outstanding new horror film from Eduardo Sánchez, the co-director of The Blair Witch Project. He is widely regarded as the man who invented, or at least helped champion, the found-footage horror movie, and his latest chiller is an exceptional marriage of third-person and first-person narrative filmmaking. Though arguably derivative, its tone and the […]
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Hayley Kind rounds up all of the films on at SUSU’s cinema, Union Films, this week.
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Adapted from Colin Clark’s memoir The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, the film tells the true story of Colin’s brief relationship with Marilyn Monroe while she was in England shooting at Pinewood. The production of the film, The Prince and the Showgirl, was not smooth, and saw clashes between director Lawrence Olivier and Ms Monroe. Colin, a 23-year-old film […]
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A Scottish dramedy musical set to the songs of The Proclaimers? If you just shouted “sign me up!” over the blaring sound of I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) you won’t be disappointed by this sunny sophomore effort from cockney actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher. Following two mildly-shellshocked soldiers returning home to their families and loved ones, Sunshine […]
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With only the technician in the auditorium, I ended up receiving a private screening of the Southampton International Film Festival’s final screening of day 3 of the festival, Choice Point. Unfortunately, I can’t say that this was a piece of documentary cinema that I particularly enjoyed. Too long, too repetitive, and really rather sickly, its […]
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Day two of the Southampton International Film Festival was screened both at the Nuffield Theatre and at a venue in the city. With all of the screenings happening at the same time, I was unfortunately only able to see what one venue had to present. The Nuffield Theatre on Highfield Campus was hosting the festival’s […]
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Jack Harding explains his love for this weird, brilliant film.
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Everyone loves a Dickens adaptation at Christmas, and this is one of the best ever produced. Spread over fifteen compelling episodes, acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies superbly adapts Dickens’s huge multi-stranded novel so that it works perfectly as a mini-series. The cast list contains some of Britain’s finest actors, but for me Gillian Anderson is the highlight. She plays the mysterious […]
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The opening screening of day two of the Southampton International Film Festival was a touching, family-orientated, World War II documentary, says Ashleigh Moore
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Salvatore Totino’s cinematography is excellently presented on this Blu-ray release from Universal Pictures.
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So, today I had the pleasure of beginning my coverage of the Southampton International Film Festival. I can certainly say that the selection of films on offer is incredibly diverse, and this is most apparent when considering the cinematic snacks of the day that were the short films. I laughed, I cried, I even recoiled […]
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Based on award winning novel by Meg Rosoff, this teenage romance crossed with futuristic war-time drama is certainly not to everyone’s taste, says Scarlett Sangster.