Articles Posted in the " Film Reviews " Category




  • Religion.com

    Screened as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival, Religion.com is a documentary exploring a unique socio-cultural dilemma in modern Israel. In ultra-orthodox Bnei Brak, the traditional Haredi Jewish community live for the most part without the internet. In a society where it was until recent times, illegal to even print the words ’email’ or ‘internet’ in a newspaper, can an advertising executive convince a Haredi Rabbi that it’s time for things to move into the 21st century?


  • Skyline

    Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem directors return with SFX-soaked alien invasion tale. Not only the worst film of the year, this is possibly one of the worst films to have ever hit cinemas. The actors seem to sleepwalk through a script that is not worth the beermat it’s scribbled on, and even the admittedly spectacular effects cannot save this shockingly derivative film from the tasteless direction of its creators.



  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    It All Ends Here. Almost. As the decade-spanning juggernaut that is the Harry Potter film franchise rumbles ponderously towards that massively unsatisfying last chapter, we skipped the queues for a preview of what we expected to be a film reminiscent of its predecessors – pretty, but ultimately as disappointing as pulling Neville’s broom keys out of a bowl at a wizarding swingers’ party. We were wrong. If Part 2 is this good, the last two films may just vindicate the entire series.


  • What About Me?

    What About Me? is a short film directed by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen (Jellyfish) and features an old man and his donkey – trying to cross a “military” checkpoint in the Israeli desert. What it is though truthfully, is a little more than that.


  • FIT

    Billed as a British comedy, FIT is an adaptation of a successful play for schools, but has it moved far enough away from its original format to become successful in its own right?


  • The Dinner Party

    A dinner among friends quickly descends into a surreal, nightmarish expose of the darkest human traits in low-budget, high-ambition project The Dinner Party. A great platform for many emerging British talents, the film nevertheless gets rather stuck in its own storyline – leaving an admittedly fabulous soundtrack to do most of the emotional legwork.