See How They Run

Review by Luke Bradley See How They Run (Tom George, 2022) launches straight into its ‘whodunnit’ narrative. Scored by the narration of Adrien Brody’s hot-shot director Leo Köpernick, he criticises the ‘second-rate murder-mysteries’ of the 1950s. ‘It’s a whodunnit; you see one, you’ve seen them all’, Köpernick laments. Opening with such a brazenly self-referential statement

The Case for Best Picture: Little Women

Written by Niamh Muldowney Looking at the Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, all the films are filled with Big Stories. Be that an origin story for arguably the most iconic comic book villain, a 210-minute gangster epic from one of the most celebrated directors currently working, or a single shot war film