★★★★☆ Despite an influx of Sherlock Holmes adventures doing the rounds, there are none quite like revered Russian director Igor Maslennikov’s celebrated interpretations. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981), his version of the Victorian detective’s encounters with a beastly dog in the wilds of Devonshire, starring […]
★★★☆☆ Released by Artificial Eye on 28 May, The Rafi Pitts Collection brings together three of the Iranian director’s most pivotal films, from the pastoral drama of Sanam (2000) through to the Tehran-based, melancholic revenge movie The Hunter (2010), via his Berlinale hit It’s Winter (2006). All three […]
★★★★☆ Pablo Trapero’s thrilling Argentinian crime drama Carancho (The Vulture, 2010) is an intelligently-rendered, complex morality tale set in the seedy nocturnal back-alleys of Buenos Aires. Newly released on DVD, the film stars Ricardo Darín, last seen on UK shores in the Oscar-winning The Secret in Their Eyes, […]
★★★☆☆ Those of you looking forward to the return of the Men in Black franchise this week will hopefully approach Men in Black 3 (MiB3, 2012) with a sentimental fondness for the snappy 1997 original, rather than it’s bitterly poor 2002 sequel. No matter what various other bloodthirsty […]
★★☆☆☆ American director Joe Carnahan reunites with Irish stalwart Liam Neeson – following 2010’s The A-Team – for The Grey (2011), a suspense-ridden survival tale which, as well as exploiting Neeson’s own personal history, also contains a worrying ethical stand point regarding animal welfare.A more-grizzled-than-usual Neeson plays Ottway, […]
★★★★☆ Showing in the Un Certain Regard section at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, Michel Franco’s After Lucia (Después de Lucía, 2012) is a devastating and harrowing look into high school bullying. Following the death of her mother in a car accident, teenager Alejandra (Tessa Ia) and her […]
