Earlier today at a press conference in Central London, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese discussed his latest feature Hugo (2011), a magical 3D journey about a young boy (Asa Butterfield) who lives in Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, mending clocks and stealing parts in […]
★★★★☆ Sarah’s Key (2010), directed by Gilles Paquet Brenner and starring Kristin Scott Thomas (soon to appear in the film adaption of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) is a sophisticated film full of emotion. It takes the familiar topic of the Holocaust and combines […]
★★☆☆☆ Studies attempting to find a link between mobiles and medical traumas are infamously vague and inconclusive, mainly due to the fact that many of them are carried out by the phone companies themselves. Fortunately, Blood in the Mobile’s (2010) Finnish director Frank Poulsen […]
★★★★☆ From directors Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog – and thanks to DVD distribution from Second Sight – comes 2010 feature documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010), an affectionate look at the lives of those who live and work in the […]
★★★★☆ After a string of high quality TV drama successes in the form of The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones (DVD/Blu-ray release date pending), you only have to look at Mildred Pierce’s (2011) credit list to get an idea of […]
