Caro Ness

Caro Ness is an award-winning children's fiction author, an adult non-fiction writer, editor and author's agent. She does quite a lot of voluntary work for the NHS and for local charities. She shares her home with her husband, an architect and her daughter, a gifted athlete.

We have 70 reviews by Caro Ness in the database: read them here.

Latest Film Reviews

The Big Bang (2010)

Review preview for The Big Bang

Banderas is convincing in this role but he is the only actor who brings any grace to a movie which is filmed with a dark and obscure filter to match the unredeemingly seedy world it portrays.

Caro Ness · 3 out of 5

A private investigator goes in search of a boxer's missing girlfriend... and a stash of diamonds.
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

Review preview for Gnomeo & Juliet

Has a cute kind of uncomplicated charm, particularly for kids.

Caro Ness · 3 out of 5

Animated take on the Shakespeare tale.
Fit (2010)

Review preview for Fit

A film that explores profoundly and dazzlingly well the diversity of human sexuality and experience.

Caro Ness · 5 out of 5

A last chance dance class becomes a therapeutic encounter between adolescents struggling with ideas about sexuality.
Patrik, aged 1.5 (2008)

Review preview for Patrik, aged 1.5

This is a charming and ultimately very uplifting movie.

Caro Ness · 4.5 out of 5

Gay couple apply to adopt a child only to discover that the age and attitude of their prospective "progeny" has been compromised.
Pornography: A Thriller (2009)

Review preview for Pornography: A Thriller

An excuse to show gay soft porn and try to emulate David Lynch’s uncomfortable weirdness.

Caro Ness · 3 out of 5

The mystery of a gay porn star who disappears.
Eloïse (2009)

Review preview for Eloïse

I believe it is one of the best explorations of a lesbian awakening that I have ever seen.

Caro Ness · 5 out of 5

Lesbian awakenings in the student art world
Dance With Me (2008)

Review preview for Dance With Me

This is a thought provoking film that teases one’s perception of behaviour with frustrating persistence

Caro Ness · 4 out of 5

The mind plays tricks in a beautiful landscape where relationships are explored.
Out At The Wedding (2007)

Review preview for Out At The Wedding

This is an amiable farce, played at breakneck speed

Caro Ness · 5 out of 5

Trouble brews for a New Yorker when she tries to keep her mixed race beau a secret at her sister's wedding.
Butch Jamie (2007)

Review preview for Butch Jamie

Ehlen, who also wrote and directed the film, has a light-hearted touch and employs a good deal of humour.

Caro Ness · 4 out of 5

A lesbian actor lands a role as a man... but is sworn to secrecy.
Echoes Of Home (2007)

Review preview for Echoes Of Home

It explodes the myth that yodelling is an outworn musical tradition, and shows us instead that it has a bright and innovative future.

Caro Ness · 5 out of 5

All you ever wanted to know about Swiss yodelling but never dared ask.