Author: Bianca Garner

Growing up as a kid my stepdad introduced me to a range of films which he had watched as a child growing up in the…

For a brief time in American cinema, the auteur reigned. No project was too epic in scale, no subject was off-limits, money was readily available…

It may be 40 years since the release of Hal Ashby’s Being There, but somehow the film is even more relevant now. Especially with the…

Too often I come across the age-old question: What is the point of film critics? Every other month the debate as to whether we need…

There are times where you attend film festivals and enter a screening totally unprepared for the film that you end up watching. Only to stumble…

With a title like The Black Forest, you may be expecting this review to be on your standard run-of-the-mill low budget horror film. Instead, Ruth…

Body at Brighton Rock is a horror film. However, it’s not a very well executed one. There are a lot of jump scares in all…

This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival saw 43% of the films that made up the festival’s program being directed by a female filmmaker. While not every…

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is widely regarded as Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece. Although she is probably best known for her work, The Haunting…

In 1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch. At least, that’s what the official report stated. Whether or not there…

Samurai Marathon by Bernard Rose delivers exactly what it promises in the title. There is indeed a marathon in the film in which the participants…

I shall start this review off with a confession, I have never really been a fan of the rom-com genre. Often I find these films…

At first, Adam Randall’s I See You is a creepy little psychological horror that feels on the cusp of becoming something close to Hereditary. Then,…

Greta Bellamacina may be the British answer to Greta Gerwig. There are certainly very many similarities between Bellmacina’s debut feature Hurt by Paradise and the…