Megan Feeney

Aug 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Steph Green |Kim Newman |Megan Feeney |Kate Stables

Based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 book, It Ends With Us is a message film smuggled into cinemas as a romantic drama – revealing its tricks so slowly that you, too, feel like you’re being had by a master manipulator you thought you loved. It centres on Lily (Blake Lively) as she navigates a romance with the charming – if overly persistent – neurosurgeon Ryle (Justin Baldoni, also the film’s director), while still grappling with memories of domestic abuse she witnessed her mother suffer.

Aug 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Megan Feeney |Kim Newman |Kate Stables |Jonathan Romney

“What use have we for such fantasies?,” Paloma’s father asks her, upon finding a magazine about yachts in their shack, adjacent to the garbage heap they scavenge to survive in their Mexican border town. The magazine is part of the secret cache of publications that feed Paloma’s natural curiosity for science – recently sparked by her new teacher, Sergio.

Jul 31, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Nick Bradshaw |Steph Green |Kim Newman |Megan Feeney

Few of us took to the high seas during the Covid pandemic, but that breach with normality, with its various ensuing experiences of isolation, precarity, reappraisal and discovery, are the closest we’re likely to come to being marooned on a desert island.

Dec 18, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Kate Stables |Ben Walters |Tom Milne |Megan Feeney

The romcom has been good to Meg Ryan. So, it’s entirely understandable that even 35 years after When Harry Met Sally (1989) shot her to stardom, she’d choose a chat-packed romance as her second directorial outing, after the earnest Ithaca (2016).

Dec 11, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Moore |Ben Walters |Tom Milne |Megan Feeney

A young trans woman faces a fraught homecoming as she returns to care for her ailing mother in Andrea Pallaoro’s stark but quietly affecting film. 11 December 2023By Sam MooreNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Inside trans cinema, there are two wolves.