12th Mar2024

Glasgow Film Festival 2024: ‘Hoard’ Review

by Jasmine Valentine

Stars: Saura Lightfoot Leon, Lily-Beau Leach, Hayley Squires, Samantha Spiro, Joseph Quinn | Written and Directed by Luna Carmoon In 1980s England, Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) lives with her mother Cynthia (Hayley Squires), who is an obsessive hoarder. Struggling at school, Maria seeks solace in the unique yet dysfunctional lifestyle that the pair share together. In […]

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18th May2023

‘Beau Is Afraid’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, Kylie Rogers, Denis Ménochet, Parker Posey, Zoe Lister Jones, Armen Nahapetian, Julia Antonelli, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Richard Kind, Hayley Squires | Written and Directed by Ari Aster Beau Is Afraid is the third film from writer-director Ari Aster, following his devastating one-two punch of Hereditary and […]

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14th Jun2021

‘In The Earth’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Joel Fry, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero | Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley In the Earth, the new film from Ben Wheatley (Kill List), begins with images all to familiar images of people in masks and hazmat suits. Here, as in real life, the world is in the grip […]

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09th Jan2019

‘Happy New Year, Colin Burstead’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Neil Maskell, Sura Dohnke, Marvin Maskell, Nicole Nettleingham, Doon Mackichan, Bill Paterson, Hayley Squires, Mark Monero, Richard Glover, Sudha Bhuchar, Vincent Ebrahim, Sinead Matthews, Sarah Baxendale, Charles Dance, Joe Cole, Peter Ferdinando | Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley Happy New Year, Colin Burstead follows in the stead of Ben Wheatley’s previous directing efforts, […]

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