Author Archives: Coco Forsythe

Genova

March 27th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

Genova (released in the US as A Summer in Genoa) is the latest film from Michael Winterbottom (In This World,


Two Lovers

March 27th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

Leonard (Phoenix) keeps trying to kill himself. The fact that he is living in his affectionate but smothering parents’ old-fashioned


Flash of Genius

March 21st, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

Flash of Genius is a cautionary tale for all would-be Dragons Den-style inventors and entrepreneurs who think they’ve hit upon


The Young Victoria

March 13th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

If your only image of Queen Victoria is a plump, grumpy old woman, dressed in widow’s weeds with a doily


American Teen

March 6th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

How much is behaviour determined by the images we absorb from the world around us, and how much are we


Watchmen

March 6th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

To borrow a phrase from The Sunday Times’ review of The Lord of the Rings, the English-speaking world is divided


Anvil! The Story of Anvil

February 20th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

Everyone is comparing Anvil to Spinal Tap but, as (hangs head in shame) I haven’t seen it, I can only


500 Days of Summer

January 18th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

Rom-coms, as a genre, don’t do much for me. As a general rule, they twist the relationships between men and


Clubbed

January 16th, 2009 | by Coco Forsythe

Clubbed opens well, with Chic’s classic Good Times bouncing along with the credits and setting you up for a feel



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