Film Review: Downsizing (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 17 December 2017 At the beginning of Downsizing, we’re asked to imagine two things. The first is that…
Film Review: The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 28 November 2017 With filmmakers hungry to find their place in Christmas culture tradition, it’s inevitable that the…
Film Review: The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 12 October 2017 There’s nothing wrong with a good old-fashioned love story, and the top of an ice-capped…
Film Review: Battle of the Sexes (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 28 September 2017 It wasn’t all that long ago that a film starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell…
Film review: Patti Cake$ (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 11 September 2017 When you hear the words “white American rapper”, what come to mind? Unless you’re still…
Review: National Theatre Live: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 13 August 2017 The marathon length National Theatre Live performance of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may well…
Film Review: Logan Lucky (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 13 August 2017 In 2001 Steven Soderbergh mastered the heist film with his suave and deceptively clever Ocean’s Eleven….
Film Review: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 27 July 2017 Over the 54 years in which the Planet of the Apes’ franchise has been evolving,…
Film review: The Beguiled (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 13 July 2017 What do you get if you place a horny Colin Farrell in a house full…
Film Review: Baby Driver (2017)
Written by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 11 July 2017 Edgar Wright knows how to make a cool movie; his unique editing style, penchant for…