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Jan 10, 2025 | 
the-independent.com | Simon Calder |Helen O’Hara |Patrick Smith
The ListFilms can still offer an emotional hit like nothing else. Helen O’Hara and Patrick Smith pick their favouritesFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Phil De Semlyen |Helen O’Hara |Matthew Singer |James Balmont
1. The duel in ‘Seven Samurai’ (1954) – picked by Chad StahelskiA few years after doubling for his friend Brandon Lee following his tragic death on The Crow in 1993, action icon Chad Stahelski was up at 7am to get hit by a car when he heard about The Matrix. ‘I was still bleeding from my head when my boss told me about the auditions,’ he recalls.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Helen O’Hara
'Transformers: Başlangıç'FilmRecommendedReview3 out of 5 starsBombastic but relatively fun robo-nonsense with an all-star voice castWednesday 18 September 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingTime Out saysSo far, there have been seven Transformers films and two of the top three have been prequels: the genuinely charming Bumblebee and the okay-compared-to-its-predecessors Rise Of The Beasts.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Helen O’Hara
Photograph: Vertigo ReleasingFilmRecommendedReview3 out of 5 starsElliot Page makes a compelling lead in this sensitive trans homecoming storyThursday 22 August 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingTime Out saysThe prodigal son returns in this quietly-told drama from director Dominic Savage and star Elliot Page. As with Savage’s TV series, I Am, director and star conceived the story and then the cast largely improvised the dialogue that drives it along.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Helen O’Hara
Photograph: StudiocanalAdvertisingTime Out says3 out of 5 starsTwo beloved character actors face off in a sweary but cosy period comedyThere’s a mild sense of subversion from the opening seconds of Thea Sharrock’s (Me Before You) new film, as the usual cosy British movie score – you know, the one with the gently tinkling piano keys – is undercut by a steel guitar more reminiscent of a Western showdown at high noon.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
timeout.com | Helen O’Hara
Photograph: PatheAdvertisingTime Out says4 out of 5 starsPart two of this all-star French adaptation of the classic adventure is a swashbuckling treatThis second part of Martin Bourboulon’s Alexandre Dumas adaptation is every bit as dashing and daring as its predecessor – helpfully recapped here – making it officially the best new action franchise of 2023 (part 1 came out in April) that is also the best new action franchise of 1844.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
timeout.com | Helen O’Hara
Photograph: BBC‘The Blue Planet’We rank the extraordinary career of the father of the nature documentaryWritten by Helen O’HaraFriday 19 January 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingLike one of those mighty redwoods you can drive a car through, David Attenborough has loomed over all our lives for seven decades now – in the most benevolent, life-giving sense imaginable.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
independent.co.uk | Helen O’Hara |Patrick Smith
The legendary film critic Roger Ebert called film “the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. Cinema offers us complete immersion in another reality, taking us on an almost out-of-body experience into someone else’s life and experience. But as one oft-filmed character says, with great power comes great responsibility, and the very best films use that power to help us.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
timeout.com | Helen O’Hara
Photograph: Claire Folger/Black BearAdvertisingTime Out says4 out of 5 starsThis finance underdog story is ‘The Big Short’ for the Reddit generationHollywood films don’t come much more ripped from the headlines than this account of the 2021 GameStop financial scandal that saw ordinary day traders take on Wall Street and win. Or did they?
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
independent.co.uk | Helen O’Hara |Patrick Smith
The legendary film critic Roger Ebert called film “the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. Cinema offers us complete immersion in another reality, taking us on an almost out-of-body experience into someone else’s life and experience. But as one oft-filmed character says, with great power comes great responsibility, and the very best films use that power to help us.
