★★★★★ Shion Sono’s Love Exposure (2008) is a unique cinematic experience which lingers long in the mind. With a running length of four hours this may sound like an exhausting endurance test, yet it is in fact a completely and […]
★★★★☆ Temporarily gone but most certainly not forgotten, J. Lee Thompson’s compelling kitchen sink drama Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) made its way back into UK cinemas this July courtesy of a StudioCanal re-mastered rerelease. Consigned to jaded memory […]
★★★★☆ The Talking Heads’ 1983 single This Must Be the Place provides the inspiration for Paolo Sorrentino’s English language directorial debut This Must Be the Place (2010), a glam rock, Nazi-hunting road movie starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn. This […]
★★★★☆ With the recent invasion of Scandinavian crime fiction on British shores bringing with it slow-burning procedurals and flawed police officers, you might expect similar from the latest Norwegian entry into the fast growing genre. Instead, Headhunters (2011) director Morten […]
