Moët Bifas 2011: Nominations announced
If there was any ounce of nagging doubt concerning the health of modern British cinema, it was completely irradiated today with the announcement of the […]
DVD Review: ‘The Princess of Montpensier’
★★★★☆ The Princess of Montpensier (2010) is a captivating historical drama with modern sensibilities from auteur director Bertrand Tavernier, starring Mélanie Thierry and Lambert Wilson. […]
DVD Review: ‘Orphans’
★★★★☆ An unconventional, surreal comedy set in the suburbs of Glasgow, Orphans (1998) is Peter Mullan’s first film behind the camera. Best known for his […]
DVD Review: ‘The Outsiders’ (2 Disc Special Edition)
★★★☆☆ Reeling from the commercial failure of 1982’s One from the Heart and perhaps wary of his growing reputation as an obsessive monomaniac, in 1983 […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Conversation’
★★★★☆ Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974) – which stars Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, and Frederic Forrest – has […]
DVD Review: ‘The House on the Edge of the Park’
★☆☆☆☆ If you manage to make it to the end of Ruggero Deodato’s controversial thriller The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), the […]
Interview: Dick Maas, director of ‘Saint’
The films of cult Dutch director Dick Maas are as notorious for their difficulty to see as for their often graphic depictions of murder and […]
DVD Review: ‘Saint’
★★★★☆ If you have any experience of Dutch director Dick Maas’ previous work, you will most likely have been eagerly anticipating his latest schlocker Saint […]
DVD Review: ‘Everything Must Go’
★★★☆☆ Loosely based on a short story by Raymond Carver, Dan Rush’s Everything Must Go (2010) follows the fortunes of an alcoholic salesman, Nick Halsey […]
Film Review: ‘Paranormal Activity 3’
★☆☆☆☆ After the generally well-received original Paranormal Activity (2009) and its quick successor, the coma-inducing Paranormal Activity 2 (2010), it’s no surprise to see Paranormal […]
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Sleeping Sickness’
★★☆☆☆ Ulrich Köhler’s latest drama Sleeping Sickness (2011) is a difficult and tiresome film that leaves a sour taste of lethargy and disappointment in the […]
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Into the Abyss’
★★★★☆ Werner Herzog returns for the second time this year with another extremely powerful and moving documentary, Into the Abyss (2011). After the success of […]
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘The Deep Blue Sea’
★★★☆☆ After an 11-year hiatus, British director Terence Davies returns to screens with his passionately faithful adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea (2011) […]
Film Review: ‘The Help’
★★★☆☆ Tate Taylor’s Oscar-baiting The Help (2011) – starring Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer – is an incredibly well-crafted film […]
BFI London Film Festival 2011: The best films of LFF
After two-and-a-half weeks of cinema heaven, he 55th BFI London Film Festival came to a close this past Thursday with the UK premiere of Terence […]
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Target’
★☆☆☆☆ Russian cinema has a long and rich history of producing exceptional sci-fi movies. From the pioneering silent films of Protazanov and Zhuravlyov, to the […]
Film Review: ‘The Ides of March’
★★★☆☆ The Ides of March (2011) – directed by and starring George Clooney – takes a swipe at the ruthless back-room deals and media hype […]
Film Review: ‘The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn’
★★★★☆ When the announcement came that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson would be bringing Hergé’s famous boy detective Tintin to the big screen in The […]