Film Review: ‘Project Nim’
★★☆☆☆ Imagine you had a brilliant story that you just had to tell. Then you thought about the best way you could make that...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino’s terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.
★★☆☆☆ Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★☆☆☆ Maïwenn’s French period drama Jeanne du Barry is the perfect opening salvo for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its vacuous politics drowned out by the thunderous sound of it slapping its own back.
★★☆☆☆ Imagine you had a brilliant story that you just had to tell. Then you thought about the best way you could make that...
The Toronto International Film Festival 2011 (TIFF 2011) returns for its 36th year this September with a whole host of highly anticipated world premieres...
Having already seen both Joe Cornish’s Alien invasion movie Attack the Block (2011) and the original Die Hard (1988) (the latter at unhealthy amount...
★★☆☆☆ Based upon the autobiographical novel of Latif Yahia, a body double for Saddam Hussein’s son Uday Hussein during the late 1980s, director Lee...
★★★☆☆ Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) is the second film from director Rupert Wyatt (following 2008’s The Escapist) and joins a...
★★☆☆☆ Produced by Imaginarium and directed by Leigh Scott, The Witches of Oz (2011) is a short TV mini-series which revisits the magical Wizard...
★☆☆☆☆ While the DVD cover for The Rig (2010) would lead you to believe this is a giant monster movie in the vein of...
★★★☆☆ Best known for his work as cinematographer on Brad Anderson’s The Machinist (2004) and Transsiberian (2008), Lock Up (2010) is a suitably dark...