Birds Eye View welcomed a healthy amount of both men and women to its International Women’s Day Gala event. Now in its tenth year of operation, BEV was set up by Rachel Millward and Pinny Grylls (the former still stands as festival director and spoke about her pride in leading Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Darragh Byrne’s debut feature Parked (2011), starring Bel Ami’s Colm Meaney and Colin Morgan, is a disappointing example of contemporary Irish cinema, especially when compared to last year’s triumphant and hugely successful comedy The Guard (2011). The film follows Fred Daley (Meaney), who returns from England without cash or Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Stephane Rybojad’s Special Forces (Forces spéciales, 2011) follows a French military unit’s high-risk mission to rescue anti-war correspondent Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger) from Taliban capture. Taken hostage by Taliban insurgents, Elsa and a companion face the threat of eminent execution by order of high command, whilst back in France, Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ The death of Joyce Vincent came under great media scutiny in 2003. Her skeleton, identified dentally by a picture of her smiling, was found decomposed after three years of lying unnoticed in her North London flat. This much we know, but with 2011’s Dreams of a Life, filmmaker Carol Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ From first-time director D.R. Hood and starring the unquestionable talents of Claire Foy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shaun Evans, Artificial Eye’s Wreckers (2011) clearly has a great deal going in its favour. Its Ely (Cambridgeshire) setting makes a refreshing change from the majority of London-centric releases, its cast is populated Continue Reading
