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Photo poster by Noel Faucett  It was a cold Saturday evening when I headed out to watch Ambrosine Davies’ latest show, L.A. Baby,  live at The Glitch. I found myself situated in a cosy corner of the bar’s basement, part of a small crowd eager to watch her latest show touring in London after a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And I must admit, L.A. Baby was well worth the effort it took for me to step outside on a couch rot type of day.  The one-woman show ran

Once Upon A Time in Gaza , (Tarzan and Arab Nasser, 2025); Image courtesy of London Palestine Film Festival When I heard that the London Palestine Film Festival was showing a film with a plot involving a falafel shop and a drug operation, I was all ears. Add to the fact that it happens to be a black comedy directed by acclaimed filmmakers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, and I knew it would be worth the ride.  Bizarrely, the movie begins with a recent quote from Donald Trump musing on

Rachel Sennott’s ‘I Love LA’ was caught in a whirlwind of cast discourse even before it was released.

Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025); Image courtesy of BFI London Film Festival 2025 The recent Louvre robbery has caught the world’s attention. This short eight-minute heist reads like a movie – speedy and brazen. Does our fascination with this crime reveal how drawn we are to such plots? Clearly, the allure of such a heist captures our interest. And coincidentally, Kelly Reichart’s recent feature, The Mastermind , shown at the BFI London Film Festival an

Photo by   Jack B  on   Unsplash Following the widely celebrated success of Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022), Zach Cregger has dared to continue in the horror/mystery direction, this time directing Weapons; a film about the strange disappearance of seventeen school children who decided to leave their homes at 2:17 am to run into the void. The next day only two people return to class, Alex (Cary Christopher), and Justine Gandy (Julia Garner), the teacher, raising prominent quest

'Rolling’ is a 2021 Korean film directed by Kwak Min-seung in his debut feature, starring Shim Dal-gi as a lethargic twenty-something...