Francesca Steele

1 day ago | bfi.org.uk | Tara Judah |Adam Nayman |Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold

The Encampments uses the natural momentum of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York as its structural spine. What began with 50 students pitching tents in the campus’s designated protest zone soon became a national and international movement of students occupying campus lawns, demanding university administrations divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing.

1 day ago | bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Tara Judah |Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold

“Fight like a girl,” the heroine of Ballerina is instructed. Apparently, taken to its logical conclusion (to the extent that any movie set in the John Wick universe can be said to have a logical conclusion) this imperative means duelling with flamethrowers and using ice skates like bayonets, impressively inventive bits of carnage in a movie whose body count is in triple digits before the end of the first act.

1 week 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.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Francesca Steele

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1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Francesca Steele

Ten years ago, Cordelia Turner and Andy Webb moved back to London after 35 years of raising their four children in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Then, in their sixties, Cordelia, a landscape gardener, and Andy, a former political journalist, had begun to tire of country living and longed for the city.