Top 10 overlooked films of 2012

The Great Gatsby – Review

The Great Gatsby Rating: 3/5 Opening the Cannes Film Festival last night was Baz Luhrmann’s dazzling 3D take on Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; a novel that has been adapted five times to date, with nothing coming close to the brilliance, dare I say it, genius, of the original work. In fact, Luhrmann’s much-awaited adaptation [...]

About Flossie Topping

Flossie is the Editor of TLFR, and with an MA in journalism and a second MA in film theory, there's a good reason for that. Flossie has written for, amongst others, The Ealing Gazette, Best for Film, Don't Panic and Screen International and is also without a doubt one of the greatest writers and film critics alive. (Look, she knows how to use a gun, ok? Seriously.)

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The Big Wedding – Review

 The Big Wedding Rating: 2.5/5 “Marriage is like a phone call in the night. First comes the ring, then you wake up” grumbles Robert De Niro at the beginning of The Big Wedding, by second time director Justin Zackham (also the writer of The Bucket List and director of Going Greek). Indeed, he needs to wake up himself. After his [...]

About Davidde Gelmini

Davidde Gelmini (That's Mr Gelmini to you - and the G isn't silent), as well as The London Film Review's hardest working and most prolific writer, is a soon-to-be film graduate / MA student who is currently working on a number of films, both fiction and documentaries.

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Star Trek Into Darkness – World Premiere Review

Star Trek Into Darkness – Review Rating: 4/5 Attending the world premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness last night a full house waited for JJ and the gang to finish saying ‘hi’ to the hundreds of excited Trekkies gathered outside the Empire Leicester Square in London. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana took [...]

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Simon Horrocks is a screenwriter, director and composer. Having worked as a composer and screenwriter for over 10 years, with his music being used on network televsion in the UK, the US and many other countries. His film Third Contact is due to begin crowdfunding shortly.

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Epic – Review

Epic Rating: 1/5 The latest kids animation from Blue Sky Studios, (who we have to thank for all four Ice Age films and also such modern classics as Rio and Robots) is Epic, a CGI adventure to kick off the season of blockbusters. However, ‘epic’ is a grandiose title for a film that is shockingly [...]

About Flossie Topping

Flossie is the Editor of TLFR, and with an MA in journalism and a second MA in film theory, there's a good reason for that. Flossie has written for, amongst others, The Ealing Gazette, Best for Film, Don't Panic and Screen International and is also without a doubt one of the greatest writers and film critics alive. (Look, she knows how to use a gun, ok? Seriously.)

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Deadfall- Review

Deadfall Rating: 4/5 At one point in Deadfall, characters at a Thanksgiving dinner say what they are thankful for. You should be thankful for this old school thriller that has elements of incest, murder, snow, shootouts, family feuds, boxing, and more snow. Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde play Addison and Liza, a pair of murderous, [...]

About Davidde Gelmini

Davidde Gelmini (That's Mr Gelmini to you - and the G isn't silent), as well as The London Film Review's hardest working and most prolific writer, is a soon-to-be film graduate / MA student who is currently working on a number of films, both fiction and documentaries.

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Our Children – Review

Our Children Rating: 4/5 Real-life events have long been a source of inspiration for cinema’s finest writer-directors, and in Our Children Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse adapts a particularly chilling tragic case which shocked his home country in 2007. Although a film cannot possibly show the whole truth about such a complex true story, Lafosse is [...]

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Jean-Baptiste is our art-house critic and does a terrific job of making sure we have everything on the art-house scene covered. With an MA in Film, Jean-Baptiste is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.

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A.C.O.D review – Sundance – London

A.C.O.D Rating:   2/5 First time director Stu Zicherman has good intentions but lacks clarity with A.C.O.D, an amusing but ultimately unendearing comedy. A.C.O.D stands for adult children of divorce, a relatively new but increasingly common phenomenon affecting this generation, with this film centering around the concept of broken homes and the long term effects [...]

About Katie-Jane Hall

Katie-Jane Hall, as well as being the Assistant Editor at TLFR is a champion of independent film makers. A film nut since childhood - though her taste has significantly improved since then - her favourite genres are horror, thriller and comedy. She loves nothing more than seeking out diamonds in the rough. Her article "13 most anticipated sequels of 2013" has been the most popular post on the site since for - ever.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Review

The Reluctant Fundamentalist   Rating: 4/5 Changez Khan is a young man pursuing the American dream in The Reluctant Fundametalist. There is only one problem: he is from Pakistan and he is in New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His story is narrated through the words of the protagonist himself whilst being interviewed by [...]

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Elisa is from Udine, near Venice, in Italy. Her short film "The Mirror" received critical acclaim after being selected to be screened at the Cinema Massimo in Turin. Since moving to London London she has produced the short film "Bucket Head" for Dream Films. Most recently, she has produced and directed the documentary "Gypsy Fair". and is now in the post-production of her graduation film "A Tragedy" based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth".

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Mud – Review

Mud Rating: 4/5 In 2011, Jeff Nichols took Cannes by storm with Take Shelter, an enigmatic apoca-drama with Michael Shannon playing a man driven insane by his disturbing nightmares. The film scooped a slew of breakthrough awards for Shannon and Nichols (who had worked together previously on the almost unheard of Shotgun Stories, 2007), and [...]

About Flossie Topping

Flossie is the Editor of TLFR, and with an MA in journalism and a second MA in film theory, there's a good reason for that. Flossie has written for, amongst others, The Ealing Gazette, Best for Film, Don't Panic and Screen International and is also without a doubt one of the greatest writers and film critics alive. (Look, she knows how to use a gun, ok? Seriously.)

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The Eye of the Storm – Review

Rating: 4/5 Well it was a long time coming, but finally a director has been brave enough to take on a Patrick White poisoned chalice. White, brilliant, often misogynistic and overall misanthrope won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 with a body of work that included The Tree of Man, Voss, The Solid Mandala, [...]

I’m So Excited! – Review

Rating: 3/5 I’m So Excited It’s another Pedro Almodovar film, 33 years on from his first Pepi, Lucy, Bom in 1980. The long-ago enfant terrible of Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has recently become an old master with Volver, Broken Embraces and The Skin I [...]

In the Fog – Review

In The Fog Rating: 5/5 It’s 1942 in Nazi-occupied Belarus. The fog of war has descended over the lives of ordinary men trapped in extraordinary circumstances. Clear-cut morals have been blurred, and no black-or-white certainties remain to cling to. This is the setting for Sergei Loznitsa’s atmospheric, austere In the Fog. The opening sequence immerses [...]

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Jean-Baptiste is our art-house critic and does a terrific job of making sure we have everything on the art-house scene covered. With an MA in Film, Jean-Baptiste is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.

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What’s On: British Independent Film Festival 4th – 27th May

    The British Independent Film Festival kicks off this friday at the Empire Leicester Square and runs through the whole of May at a variety of cinemas around London – check out their full schedule here     Click each location for more information and tickets…​​ Cameo Picture House, 38 Home Street, Edinburgh, EH3 [...]

What’s On: Chinese Visual Festival 8th May – 12th June

Were you inspired by our recent ’24 Must See Foreign Language Films‘ to seek out more of what the wonderfully international language of cinema has to offer? From 9th May – 2nd June, you can attend screenings, discussions and talks regarding films (along with art and music) from the Chinese speaking world, at the Chinese [...]

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Joe Harvey runs the Newsdesk and keeps TLFR up to date with all the latest News, Trailers and Rumours (and sometimes we think he probably just makes it all up...) Makes us laugh at least once a day. Also a screenwriter currently working on the follow-up to his debut feature, 'Sweetboy', which is currently in post-production.

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