Category Archives: Film

FILM REVIEW: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’

Posted on February 4, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film ‘Phantom Thread’, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as an eccentric and punctilious fashion designer in 1950s London, is a thoroughly absorbing intellectual horror film in which the horror is entirely internal.

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FILM REVIEW: Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post’

Posted on January 18, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Given the times, it’s no surprise that Steven Spielberg wants to tell the story of a corrupt swine in the White House who turns the press into an enemy. It’s also hardly surprising that film … Continue reading →

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‘The Shape of Water’ leads BAFTA 2018 film nominations

Posted on January 9, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – The BAFTA Film Awards nominations for 2018 are the usual mix of richly deserved and dubious possibilities with full marks for the inclusion of ‘The Shape of Water’ (pictured) and ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ … Continue reading →

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‘Shape ofWater’, ‘Three Billboards’ in London crix noms

Posted on December 19, 2017 by admin

Announcement today by the Film Critics Circle, of which I am a proud member. LONDON, 19 DECEMBER 2017: The UK’s leading film critics today announced the nominations for the 38th annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards presented by Dover Street … Continue reading →

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FILM REVIEW: Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Blade Runner 2049’

Posted on October 7, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – ‘What if?” movies provide some of the most entertaining and thought provoking moments in cinema and there’s a good deal to enjoy in the sci-fi sequel “Blade Runner 2049” but its key “what if?” question … Continue reading →

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FIMUCITÉ concert: ‘Stephen King’s Night Gallery’

Posted on October 2, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TENERIFE – A celebration of music from screen versions of stories by the world’s most popular horror writer, which closed Fimucitê on Saturday night, featured world premieres of cues from the much-loved 1990 TV adaptation of “It” … Continue reading →

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FIMUCITÉ concert: ‘Sword & Sorcery’

Posted on October 1, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TENERIFE – Movie composer Trevor Jones (below left), whose credits over an almost 40-year career include “Labyrinth”, “Angel Heart”, “Mississippi Burning”, “The Last of the Mohicans”, “Brassed Off!” and “Notting Hill”, was celebrated for his scores for … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Scott Cooper’s ‘Hostiles’

Posted on September 16, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Scott Cooper opens his muscular Western tale “Hostiles” with a horrifying sequence of slaughter and he sustains a palpable level of dread as a group of travellers journey hundreds of miles through some of the … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Molly’s Game’

Posted on September 15, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game” assumes that to watch obnoxious rich men play the most boring form of poker is actually entertaining. Its story of a glamorous woman whose attempts to exploit the bad behaviour of … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

Posted on September 14, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is so full of surprises that when Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), carries an open bottle of wine across a restaurant toward a table where her ex-husband sits with his pretty young … Continue reading →

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