Matt Glasby

“It’s like a sauna. Furnace. You could fry an egg on my stomach. Oooooohhhhh”

Those with no interest can just keep walking.

Nicholas Hoult gives a dignified central performance.

Stephen Merchant has a great ear for dialogue.

Does more for Kidman than it does for the genre.

There’s a reason it’s up for an Oscar.

Sophisticated spook show is a real best of British.

Things eventually go south for the gang and the viewer.

“You’ll be digging your nails into the arm-rest”

The problem – and it’s a biggie – is one of timing.

“Plunges us into a maelstrom of fame so monstrous only Michael Jackson could relate”.

Has an intelligence and ambition that’s all-too-rare in blockbuster season.

Bad writing lets down a good-as-ever Colin Firth, writes Matt Glasby.

Matt Glasby on the access-all-areas documentary that attempts to get to the bottom of such a confounding man.

All expectation, no eruption.

Feels like an adaptation of an austere 1900s book that’s been lost to the ages.

The exuberant Scot speaks to us about JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE and her other massive projects.

What really stays with you is the extraordinary, often handheld, camerawork and Baker’s powerful sense of place.

One of the – many – things that marks David Lowery’s A Ghost Story out from the pack is that it centres on a songwriter (Casey Affleck) who’s actually pretty good. The composition he plays halfway through the film is, in fact, Dark Rooms’ I Get Overwhelmed, a work of anxious, soaring beauty. Shame the […]

Adapted from the 1865 novella by Russian author Nikolai Leskov, but transplanted to the UK’s bleak Northumberland moors, William Oldroyd’s debut plays out like a Victorian Handmaid’s Tale. The first scene shows young Katherine (Florence Pugh) married off to local landowner Alexander (Paul Hilton), her face completely wrapped in a wedding veil that looks more […]

Steeped in the sort of whimsy that makes a certain strain of American indie cinema films so distinctive/unwatchable, depending on your POV, British writer/director Rachel Tunnard’s modest debut is quietly impressive, winning best supporting actor and best debut screenwriter at the British Independent Film Awards. Anna (Jodie Whitaker from Attack The Block) is nearly 30 – […]