Reviews – June 2017

26/05/2017 | Reform

Meet the Trinity

The Shack Directed by Stuart Hazeldine Certificate 12a, 132 minutes Released 9 June

Mack (Sam Worthington) takes his kids on a camping trip with friends. Tragedy threatens to strike when the canoe of his daughter Katie and … Read More

Reviews – May 2017

02/05/2017 | Reform

Healing the divide between nations

Frantz Directed by François Ozon Certificate 12a, 113 minutes Released 12 May

Shot largely in ravishing black and white to recreate a time before colour photography existed – although occasional colour enhances … Read More

Reviews – April 2017

27/03/2017 | Reform

Nonconformist poet

A Quiet Passion Directed by Terence Davies Certificate 12a, 126 minutes Released 7 April

A stern matriarch divides a school room of young women into those who are saved on one side and those who hope to be … Read More

Reviews – March 2017

27/02/2017 | Reform

Meet our radical forebears

The Leveller Revolution John Rees Verso £25 (hardback) ISBN: 9781784783884

 

Historians have long debated the significance of the Levellers’ contribution to the English revolution. In this meticulous, thoroughly researched book (it has grown out … Read More

Reviews – February 2017

30/01/2017 | Reform

Conscientious cooperator

Hacksaw Ridge Directed by Mel Gibson Certificate 15, 131 minutes Released 27 January

As a Seventh Day Adventist, Desmond Doss (Silence’s Andrew Garfield) believes passionately that killing others is against the law of God. This gets him into … Read More

Reviews – December 2016/January 2017

30/11/2016 | Reform

A hero on trial

Sully Directed by Clint Eastwood Certificate 12a, 96 minutes Released on 2 December

On 15 January 2009, in New York City, a commercial passenger aircraft in trouble managed to land safely on the … Read More