The UK Jewish Film Festival 2018
Joyce Glasser previews the UK Jewish Film Festival 2018 (8-22 November 2018) The Jewish Film Festival, which begins 8th November and runs until 22 November, is not only a wide-ranging selection of fea ...
FILM REVIEWS
Steve McQueen’s heist thriller is more about following the money than female empowerment
Joyce Glasser reviews Widows (November 2, 2018), Cert. 15, 130 min. When co-writer/director Steve McQueen won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave, it was an award for African ...
Mike Leigh’s passionate historic drama is all too relevant, but a challenge for all audiences
Joyce Glasser reviews Peterloo (November 2, 2018), Cert. 12A, 154 min. In his last movie, I, Daniel Blake, now 82-year-old social-realist filmmaker Ken Loach delivered what is arguably his most passio ...
Scottish engineers subvert ruthless dictator Augusto Pinochet in this uplifting if jumbled documentary
Joyce Glasser reviews Nae Pasaran (November 2, 2018), Cert. 12A, 96 min. Nae Pasaran, or ‘they will not pass,’ the Scottish version of the Republican battle-cry in the 1936 Spanish Civil War, is a dou ...