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Catherine Drake

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Biography:

I am a freelance Film and Television Journalist with bylines at Den of Geek, Digital Spy, Little White Lies and Film Stories. I also write reviews and features for my site catherineonfilm.com. I have previously written for the The Times, the Picturehouse Cinemas blog, QX Magazine, UK Film Review and InSession Film and have appeared as a guest film critic on London Live's Friday night film show London Film Club (Freeview channel 8). Career highlights include meeting film critic Mark Kermode for an interview that won me a student award and writing a Den of Geek article about Wittertainment that was featured on Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. It was also a great pleasure to interview Claire Foy in Rome and walk the red carpet for the premiere of The Girl in the Spider's Web.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Greatest Showman (2017) 56% EDIT “The Greatest Showman is a triumph.” – Catherine on Film Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Against the Law (2017) 100% EDIT “Against The Law is neither just drama nor just documentary, it's something far more powerful for having elements of both.” – Den of Geek Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Suburbicon (2017) 27% 4/5 EDIT “Suburbicon isn't always the most finely tuned of comedies... but the twists are brilliant, the score alternately suspenseful and moving and the message poignant.” – Den of Geek Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Prick Up Your Ears (1987) 92% EDIT “Molina is superb as Halliwell, managing to not only depict a man gradually unravelling from intelligent and dignified to frenzied and paranoid but to cast him in a sympathetic light.” – Little White Lies Jan 15, 2019 Full Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 79% 4/5 EDIT “This Poppins revival will at once reinvigorate your love for the 1964 classic and make you fall head over heals for the no-nonsense nanny all over again.” – Catherine on Film Dec 31, 2018 Full Review Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) 37% 3/5 EDIT “A funny but out of place physical romp as Rowan Atkinson returns as Johnny English, a secret agent stuck in the past who must face a very modern threat.” – Den of Geek Dec 31, 2018 Full Review The Raft (2018) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Marcus Lindeen has the participants of a radical social experiment re-enact moments from their experience, bringing forth some moving confessions.” – Little White Lies Dec 31, 2018 Full Review The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) 38% 2/5 EDIT “Claire Foy puts in an admirable performance with a plot that feels like a superhero movie played awkwardly straight.” – Den of Geek Dec 31, 2018 Full Review Postcards From London (2018) 50% 3/5 EDIT “It's worth it for Harris Dickinson and you won't have seen anything like it.” – Little White Lies Nov 23, 2018 Full Review Night School (2018) 27% 2/5 EDIT “The film's poster has that classic '90s fold-your-arms-and-lean pose, and indeed it feels like a timeworn story that's been dusted off and given a 2018 makeover.” – Little White Lies Sep 27, 2018 Full Review Blockers (2018) 84% 3/5 EDIT “You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll love John Cena.” – Little White Lies Mar 30, 2018 Full Review The Informer (1961) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Jean-Pierre Melville presents a murky criminal underworld in his gangland classic.” – The Times (UK) Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) 87% 4/5 EDIT “A snappy animated comedy with a lovely, gooey, sentimental heart.” – Little White Lies Jul 24, 2017 Full Review Chasing Coral (2017) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The message will stay with you, but so will the nagging sense that you can't really do anything unless you happen to be a world leader.” – Little White Lies Jul 14, 2017 Full Review
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