Month: March 2012

★★★★☆ Many of us may know men who have at one time or another paid for sex. They don’t shout about it, nor do they go into detail, but it occasionally comes up in conversation that they went to Amsterdam or Thailand and slept with a prostitute. Yet many of Continue Reading

★★★☆☆ G8 Summits have become synonymous with political protest, civil unrest and running battles between activists and police. The 2001 Genoa summit was a particularly dramatic affair, involving around 200,000 protesters and an army of officers whose violent handling of the situation led to a number of individuals being charged. Continue Reading

Thanks to our friends at London’s Roxy Bar & Screen and Filmbar 70, we have a pair of tickets to give away to their fantastic Night of the Black Mass Easter Saturday all-nighter on 7 April, with five horror classic screening from 11pm into the early hours (approx. 7am, coffee and Continue Reading

In our second Artificial Eye competition of the week, and to celebrate the cinematic release of Paolo Sorrentino‘s This Must Be the Place (2011) – which stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand – on 2 April, we have THREE DVD copies of the 4-disc The Paolo Sorrentino Collection to give Continue Reading

In the first of two Artificial Eye competitions this week, and to celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Terence Davies‘ seductive post-war drama The Deep Blue Sea (2011) – which stars Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston – on 2 April, we have THREE Blu-ray copies of the film to Continue Reading

★★★★☆  Bonsái (2011), Chilean director and writer Cristián Jiménez‘s follow up to 2009’s Optical Illusions realises the tale of a handsome and philosophical literary student, first love and fact vs. fiction. his latest effort still bears some of the postmodern leanings of his debut, but this precise and beautifully photographed Continue Reading

★★★★☆ How do you win a war against the ocean? That’s the question posed in The Island President (2011), an astonishingly intimate account of a world leader fighting – quite literally – for his country’s survival. Jon Shenk’s documentary paints a vivid and powerful picture, enjoying extensive access to the Continue Reading

★★★★☆ Italian writer/director Alice Rohrwacher’s debut feature Corpo Celeste (2011) is a hugely confident examination of faith and rebellious youth with an assured central performance from relative newcomer Yle Vianello. She stars as the 13-year-old Marta, whose impending confirmation clashes with her own physical passage into womanhood and forces her Continue Reading

★★★☆☆ Generally speaking, dancing’s depiction in films and the media has tended to be aimed towards the older generation. Then shows like Strictly Come Dancing and Britain’s Got Talent came along and suddenly it was hip, no matter what your age, to strut your stuff. It’s the audiences of those Continue Reading