DVD Review: ‘Three Veils’
★★☆☆☆ The second feature from director Rolla Selbak, Three Veils (2011) tells the interconnected stories of three young Muslim women living in the US. The […]
DVD Review: ‘Trapeze’
★★★☆☆ This week’s Second Sight rerelease of Carol Reed’s high flying epic Trapeze (1956) is a welcome reminder of the domineering screen presence of Burt […]
DVD Review: ‘Pigsty’
★★★★☆ Recently rereleased alongside comedic classic Hawks and Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini, 1966) courtesy of Eureka’s esteemed Masters of Cinema home entertainment label, Italian filmmaker […]
DVD Review: Amicus Studios Collection
★★★☆☆ StudioCanal have just released four monster titles from Amicus Studios, the only company which even came close to beating Hammer at their own game […]
DVD Review: ‘Prisoners of War’
★★★★☆ Despite its unremitting action sequences and oversexed narrative, Showtime’s Homeland emerged as one of America’s high-flying seasonal exports. As the pale lips of Damian […]
DVD Review: Giorgio Moroder presents ‘Metropolis’
★★★☆☆ For a black-and-white German film from the silent era, Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking 1927 sci-fi Metropolis has had a colourful and noisy history in its […]
DVD Review: ‘Mirror Mirror’
★★☆☆☆ Several years ago, Indian filmmaker Tarsem Singh made an ambitious, self-funded and visually glorious pseudo-fairy tale called The Fall (2006); unfortunately, the story didn’t […]
DVD Review: ‘The Raven’
★★☆☆☆ John Cusack stars as renowned American author Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue’s The Raven (2011) – a pulpy Gothic thriller built upon the […]
Venice 2012: Lineup announced
Hot on the heels of the Toronto Film Festival programme announcement earlier this week (there’s beginning to be some serious rivalry brewing between these over-lapping […]
Film Review: ‘Woman in a Dressing Gown’
★★★★☆ Available to own on DVD for the first time since its cinematic release back in 1957, J. Lee Thompson’s Woman in a Dressing Gown […]
Interview: Malik Bendjelloul, ‘Searching for Sugar Man’
Sixto Rodriguez, the Detroit-born, Mexican folk singer who never quite made it in the States during the 1970s, is the humble star of Malik Bendjelloul’s […]
Film Review: ‘Searching for Sugar Man’
★★★★☆ Malik Bendjelloul’s strikingly assured debut Searching for Sugar Man (2012) is a fascinating documentary founded on the remarkable true story of a seemingly unsuccessful […]
Film Review: ‘Red Desert’
★★★★☆ Lauded by a growing number of critics as Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni’s magnum opus, the visually arresting Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso, 1964) returns […]
Film Review: ‘El Bulli: Cooking in Progress’
★★☆☆☆ Cuisine-concerned feature documentaries are few and far between, and on the evidence of Artificial Eye’s El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011), this is perhaps […]
Film Review: ‘The Man Inside’
★★☆☆☆ Released in UK cinemas this week, Essex-born filmmaker Dan Turner’s The Man Inside (2012) is a gritty urban thriller which, whilst packing a punch, […]
Toronto Film Festival 2012: Five minute trailer for ‘Cloud Atlas’
When it was first announced that someone was hoping to adapt David Mitchell’s award-winning, genre-hopping, millennia-spanning concertina of a novel for the big screen, you […]
Film Review: ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax’
★★☆☆☆ There’s little denying that the subject matter of Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda’s 3D animation Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (2012) – adapted from Dr. […]
Toronto Film Festival 2012: Lineup announced
The lineup was recently announced for this year’s 2012 Toronto Film Festival (6-16 September), and it looks like a packed and exciting programme. Opening the […]