Tag: LFF 2024
London Film Festival Review: Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Padaí Ó Maolchalann October 14, 2024
For all the lush scenery and exotic vistas with which it meets the eye, Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour is a movie defined as much by…
London Film Festival Review: Blitz (Steve McQueen)
Padaí Ó Maolchalann October 9, 2024
The cinema of suffering need not necessarily be a traumatic experience. In the 16 years since his first feature, Hunger, Steve McQueen has proved himself…
London Film Festival Review: Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
Padaí Ó Maolchalann October 8, 2024
Subjectivity can be a hard thing to depict in cinema. Even in the most immersive, captivating movies, there exists the perpetual sense that we, the…
London Film Festival Review: Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot)
Padaí Ó Maolchalann October 7, 2024
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” A Kierkegaard quote may strike one as an unusual jumping-off point for an…