Indy Datta reviews The Grandmaster, which hits British cinemas today.
Category Archives: World Cinema
Diary of a Lost Girl
Philip Concannon watches as Louise Brooks loses her innocence.
Monoglot Movie Club – Too Hot For TV!
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: a compilation of old outtake reviews that didn’t make it into this year’s published articles, spiced up with some gratuitous swearing to justify the title. Hey, it works for Mock The Week.
The Killing Fields
Indy Datta reviews the 30th anniversary Blu-ray edition of David Puttnam and Roland Joffé’s film about the rise of the Khmer Rouge, which is released today by StudioCanal.
A lingering disturbance
It’s the 31st October, All Hallows Eve, the perfect time for Mostly film writers to reflect on what has cinematically disturbed them and why…
Dispatches from the LFF: The Second Review Round-Up
Laura Morgan and Ron Swanson delve further into the London Film Festival’s schedule and report on what they find…

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London on Film – London Symphony
While the film world’s eyes are turned towards London for the LFF, Alex Barrett talks about his ambitious new film project about the city, and explains how you can get involved.
Le Jour se lève
Laura Morgan writes about a proto-noir love story with a political subtext, on the 75th anniversary of its release.
Classy ladies, scary movies
Blake Backlash considers the cinematic mixing of Hollywood’s grande dames with grand guignol.
Hooray for Holyrood!
As Scots go to the polls, the MostlyFilm crew bring you their favourite examples of Scotland on film.








