REVIEW: Before Midnight

Before Midnight

Richard Linklater and his stars/co-writers Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy revisit Jesse and Celine once more in the third installment of their ever-improving Before franchise. It is fair to say that very few people were even aware of this film’s existence before it was announced as part of the Sundance line-up at the beginning of […] Read more »

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

Set nine years after the events in Vienna, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet again in Paris, where Jesse is giving a reading from his new novel – based in large part on their encounter from the first film. While this is the first time they have met or spoken since, they quickly […] Read more »

Before Sunrise

Before sunrise (1)

In the run-up to the release of Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, it seemed appropriate to revisit his two earlier installments in the occasionally intersecting lives of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy). Back in 1995 I remember hearing a lot of truth in the pseudo-intellectual rantings of this young couple on their overnight first […] Read more »

REVIEW: Sinister

sinister

I was a big fan of Sinister when it screened at FrightFest in London last August, where I found it to be the scariest film of the weekend. At a dedicated horrorfest that run 4.5 days, that’s no mean feat either! In the interests of full disclosure, I do count co-writer C. Robert Cargill as […] Read more »