Christina Newland

1 week ago | msn.com | Christina Newland

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1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later is an excellent survival horror. With a grim realism and a resilient Britishness that recalls the most desperate days of the Second World War, it has grit, suspense, and heart – albeit with some tonal wobbles and plot twists that are sure to raise eyebrows.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

In debut writer-director Daisy-May Hudson’s tearjerking family drama Lollipop, the filmmaker borrows loosely from her own mother’s experience and tells a harrowing but ultimately hopeful story of resilience and female solidarity. Our central character, Molly (an excellent Posy Sterling), has been newly released from prison after a four-month stretch that has separated her from her young children.

4 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold |Jonathan Romney |Christina Newland

Like a jauntier Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Ballad of Wallis Island is an affecting comedy that contemplates the pains and pleasures of a musical career in freefall. And as it happens, like the Coen brothers’ film, it stars Carey Mulligan as a woman who represents the protagonist’s romantic failure. Tom Basden is McGwyer, an arrogant, embittered musician racked with self-loathing over desperate celebrity behaviour, like teeth-whitening.