Film Reviews

Last night the first screening of films made in this year's London 48 Hour Film Project took place at the Prince Charles cinema, Leicester Square. After an exhausting 48 hours filming and editing, 23 teams submitted their short films, all of which had to contain the following elements - Character: Sam or...

There's a new breed of super-bird in town, and it's not the plasticine poultry of Chicken Run. Owls are seriously incredible birds to watch, real or otherwise. Their eyes are huge and expressive. Their heads can rotate a whopping 270 degrees, and of course, they fly completely silently. So, what happens...

Behind the throbbing crowds of the red carpet and prestigious Gala screenings that dominate the media coverage of the London Film Festival, there are also a host of premiers for other pictures. Some worthy of your attention, others not. Sometimes it can be easy to forget amidst the scale of such a large...

When peer pressure gets mixed with alcohol, the Swedish summertime finds itself host to all manner of indiscretions in Ruben Östlund's Involuntary. But don't get too excited, because in real life that doesn't equal cheerleaders and hot tubs and table-dancing. In fact, as you might expect, reality is...

Film Festival favourite Kelly Reichardt returns for the third time to the capital for the British premier of her contemplative Western, Meek’s Cutoff , starring Michelle Williams. Arriving with considerable hype from its premier at Venice last month, Meek’s Cutoff marks something of a departure for...

Chuck Season 3 didn’t exactly start the way many people wanted it to; they wanted to start the season the same way Season 2 finished, writes Thomas Whitton for TRF, with lots of energy and with the main characters, Chuck and Sarah, together. The writers had other plans: they decided to slow things down a...

In the small conservative island town of Port Gamble, Washington, a deadly Zombie virus spreads rapidly through the population. As well as the flesh-hungry undead, writes Jon Appleyard for TFR,  we find the town contains a deranged homophobic priest, a Republican mayor running for a new term as well as his...

The Social Network is a film that will jolt you back to reality from the cyber-bubble so many of us live in. This clever, witty and somewhat scary portrayal of the beginnings of Facebook is worth watching whether you are addicted to it or a technophobe. The film begins with Mark Zuckerberg sitting in a...

Every generation thinks they've discovered sex, so the saying goes; the same probably applies to terrorism. Barely a month goes by now without someone trying to ignite a bomb hidden in their pants, but it's easy to forget that back in the 1970s there were numerous terrorist outrages too. Carlos tells the story of...

Britain's rising acting talent have clubbed together to open this year's London International Film Festival, writes Russell Webber starting his coverage of the festival for The Film Review, with a quietly affecting, but ultimately flawed, adaptation of the respected Kazuo Ishiguro romantic...