…on film

What if that awkward moment was gone, girl: What was Worth Seeing in 2014

31st December 201427th December 2015Jason Korsner

There are few things that can keep a true film enthusiast out of the cinema. One might be the fear of seeing a [click for more...]

Unbroken – Review

26th December 201411th August 2015Jason Korsner

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Review

12th December 201415th January 2025Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson – FEATURING: Christopher Lee, Evangeline Lilly, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, Bret McKenzie, Cate Blanchett, Graham McTavish, Ian Holm, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Lee Pace, Manu Bennett, Ryan Gage, Stephen Fry, Sylvester McCoy [click for more...]

Black Sea – Review

5th December 201424th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Kevin Macdonald – FEATURING: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Bobby Schofield, Branwell Donaghey, Daniel Ryan, David Fenton, David Threlfall, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Jodie Whittaker, Karl Davies, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Michael Smiley, Sergey Kolesnikov, Sergey Puskepalis, Sergey Veksler, Tobias Menzies [click for more...]

The Imitation Game – Review

14th November 201415th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Morten Tyldum – FEATURING: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Alex Lawther, Allen Leech, Charles Dance, Jack Bannon, Matthew Beard, Rory Kinnear, Steven Waddington, Tom Goodman-Hill, Tuppence Middleton [click for more...]

The Drop – Review

14th November 201419th November 2015Jason Korsner

DIRECTOR: Michaël Roskam – CAST: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Gandolfini, John Ortiz, Michael Aronov, Michael Esper, Morgan Spector, Ann Dowd, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ross Bickell [click for more...]

Interstellar – Review

7th November 201416th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan – FEATURING: Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, David Gyasi, David Oyelowo, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Mackenzie Foy, Matt Damon, Michael Caine, Topher Grace, Wes Bentley, William Devane [click for more...]

Nightcrawler – Review

31st October 201418th April 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Dan Gilroy – FEATURING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Carolyn Gilroy, Eric Lange, Jonny Coyne, Kevin Rahm, Michael Hyatt, Riz Ahmed [click for more...]

Mr Turner – Review

31st October 20145th September 2019Jason Korsner

DIRECTOR: Mike Leigh – CAST: Timothy Spall, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Amy Dawson, David Horovitch, Dorothy Atkinson, James Fleet, Karl Johnson, Marion Bailey, Martin Savage, Paul Jesson, Richard Bremmer, Roger Ashton-Griffiths [click for more...]

Fury – Review

22nd October 201420th July 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: David Ayer – FEATURING: Brad Pitt, Jon Bernthal, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Shia LaBeouf, Alicia von Rittberg, Anamaria Marinca, Brad William Henke, Jason Isaacs, Jim Parrack, Kevin Vance, Xavier Samuel [click for more...]

International politics creeps into LFF Awards

19th October 201412th February 2018Jason Korsner

At an unusually political set of awards at the 2014 London Film Festival, it’s almost as if the BFI is trying to solve [click for more...]

Gone Girl – Review

3rd October 201421st June 2023Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: David Fincher – FEATURING: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Boyd Holbrook, Carrie Coon, Casey Wilson, David Clennon, Emily Ratajkowski, Kim Dickens, Lisa Banes, Lola Kirke, Missi Pyle, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Fugit, Scoot McNairy, Sela Ward, Tyler Perry [click for more...]