Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Be it your race, gender or sexuality, your cultural identity plays a big part in defining who you are. But if you're part of a marginalised group, the chances are that identity will also limit your life chances. Adapted from the nov... Read the full review »

Dune: Part 2 lives up to all of its predecessor’s promises as a bold, non-stop, gut-punch of an epic that’s brimming with intense conflicts about leadership, power and prophecy. Full review available at: https://barneyonmovies.wordpress.com/2... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Park Chan-Wook's 'Oldboy,' is a film about a man called Dae-Su hunting down the people who captured and imprisoned him for fifteen years. What makes it different from your average genre movie though is that the prospect of finding th... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Wonka,' is another musical about a guy with a dream. A great chocolate maker (Timothee Chalamet) arrives in London hoping to open his first shop, but much to his surprise, the city's "chocolate cartel," (Matt Lucas, Paterson Joseph... Read the full review »

Bob Marley: One Love may not be a full-bodied depiction of the truth, but as a piece of storytelling, it doesn’t need to be. The truths it reveals are about a character reconciling their ideals with their reality, and that universal arc and them... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Saim Sadiq's Joyland isn't just a seminal Pakistani film because it was the first from the country to be entered at Cannes and shortlisted at The Oscars. It's also because, revolving around a working-class family who live together in... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Justine Triet's 'Anatomy of a Fall,' follows the murder trial of a writer called Sandra (Sandra Huller) after her husband dies at their home in the French Alps with only the pair's blind son (Milo Machado-Graner) as a witness. Mainly... Read the full review »