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Rotterdam 2015 Review: WAR BOOK Makes For A Compelling Chamber Piece

(Thankfully a nuclear war isn't our biggest fear any more these days... or is it?) This year, the opening film of the International Film Festival Rotterdam was Tom Harper's War Book, a British drama about a governmental brainstorm session. It...

TIFF 2013 Review: HOW I LIVE NOW Does Young Adult Better Than Most

It's hard to throw a stone in Hollywood without hitting a Young Adult novel turned quickly-optioned screenplay. Nine times out of ten the story involves mythological creatures or futuristic themes. So you would be forgiven for dismissing the big...

Young Love Turns Grim In THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS

Despite turning a good many heads when it screened at the London Film Festival, Tom Harper's teen thriller The Scouting Book For Boys - starring the stellar Thomas Turgoose of This Is England fame - has been lying low since...

Thomas Turgoose Stars In THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS

Ah, young love and disappearances, these are the things that fuel Tom Harper's The Scouting Book For Boys.  Screening Sunday at the London Film Festival, Scouting Book stars the stellar Thomas Turgoose (This Is England, Somers Town) as the male...