Tag Archives: David Thewlis

Review in Brief: Rare Beasts (2019/21)

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Billie Piper’s directorial debut RARE BEASTS is one of the funniest and most profound, but also perhaps the most uncomfortable of films to watch this year. From an opening dinner date scene incorporating discussion of “gummy blowjobs”, Piper is completely … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Eternal Beauty (2019/20)

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I always love films that look unflinchingly at mental illness but are also brave enough not to perpetuate the fallacy that someone with a mental health problems automatically becomes a saint. In Craig Roberts’ second complex directorial feature, Jane (a … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is challenging, elusive, indulgent, alienating – a Charlie Kaufman film, in short. Like pretty much all of his work, reality is brought into question minute by minute, nobody ends up playing exactly the same character … Continue reading →

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Review: Macbeth (2015)

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Everyone knows the Scottish Play. Featuring characters and dialogue iconic enough to ingrain itself in culture the world over, you need very little help to make this story memorable. But director Justin Kurzel doesn’t do anything by halves, and has … Continue reading →

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Review: An Inspector Calls (2015)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

This review contains spoilers for JB Priestley’s 1945 play, as well as subsequent film and TV adaptations. For the most part, the BBC’s TV adaptation of JB Priestley’s classic AN INSPECTOR CALLS, broadcast last weekend, is polished, if conventional. The … Continue reading →

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Review: Legend (2015)

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

The first time we see Ron Kray, he’s talking animatedly about taking another man’s sausage. Over the two uneasy hours we spend with him he progresses to claiming to be able to see the future, and doesn’t seem to be … Continue reading →

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Review: The Theory of Everything (2014)

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

How do you sum up the life of such an extraordinary human being? Director James Marsh, writer Anthony McCarten and principle actors Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones prove that you have to start from a place of emotion, and THE … Continue reading →

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