Clio Barnard

Heavy-going and heavy-handed: Dark River reviewed

24 February 2018 9:00 am

Dark River is the much-anticipated third feature from British writer/director Clio Barnard and it is one of those bleak, rural-…

Deborah Ross: The Selfish Giant is not fresh, but it's superbly performed

26 October 2013 9:00 am

The Selfish Giant is a British social-realism film in the tradition of all such films from Kes onwards, so it…