About Steve Harcourt

With a brand new venue for its Gala evening, Tweetfest returned for its 8th year of supporting short film and giving a platform to many new filmmakers. Like previous years, this event showcased a remarkable array of talent with innovative and exciting new films, and a broad section of ideas genres and concepts, including those with an international flavour.
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On the face of it there are many familiar elements in place for Bones and All. With director Luca Guadagnino teaming up once again with his Call Me By Your Name actor Timothee Chalamet, for a coming of age drama, you could be forgiven for thinking you know what’s coming. What we get however is much more leftfield and layered.
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Every festival throws up an unexpected gem and this year’s London Film Festival is no exception.  All That Breathes is the kind of film that on paper would seem to potentially be a very niche documentary, but in reality will probably have universal appeal.
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As Roald Dahl’s biggest selling title, and on the back of the highly successful theatre musical, it was only a matter of time before Matilda gained its second film adaptation. This time though, it is an adaptation of the musical, rather than coming directly from the book.
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It was inevitable that the success of Netflix’s Stranger Things, which itself was influenced by J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, would ensure that some shows appeared with a similar feel. In …
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You may have noticed that our usual services been slightly interrupted, and this is unfortunately due to some illness and a little bit of technical malfeasance that have gummed up …
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From the horror section of the Paris International Film Festival comes a creepy and unsettling film in ‘Silent River’, from director Chris Chan Lee.
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Art always manages to divide itself up into scenes and subcultures, with some being difficult to define as they’re offshoots of other genres. After a while some begin to coalesce into a new area and ‘For the Love of Noise’ by Alan Cross and Kevin Hough examines the Brighton experimental music scene as it formed from the late 70s to the present day.
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The first thing you think of when you get to the end of episode seven of The Book of Boba Fett is, how is this supposedly the finale? This episode: ‘In the Name of Honor’, in theory brings all the other plotlines together and gives it some kind of climax.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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It has been 10 years since director Mabrouk El Mechri last released a feature, and on the evidence presented here it has been too long, as we’ve been missing out. Widely known as the director of J.C.V.D. he returns with an interesting and potentially controversial tale of domestic violence, ‘Kung Fu Zohra’.
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In another bit of great fanservice The Book Of Boba Fett once again abandons Boba Fett and uses characters that are much more interesting to give us an enjoyable show. Episode 6, ‘From The Desert Comes A Stranger’ also delivers a lot of Easter eggs and tie-ins to other aspects of the Star Wars universe.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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The News media is an old target, but one which never seems to lose relevance. France, starring Léa Seydoux and directed by Bruno Dumont takes aim once again, but this time with more of an internal focus.
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