DVD Review: ‘Wild Bill’
★★★★☆ The promotional material for Wild Bill (2012) bore all the hallmarks of a mockney crime caper, down to it being the directorial debut...
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★☆ The promotional material for Wild Bill (2012) bore all the hallmarks of a mockney crime caper, down to it being the directorial debut...
With cinemas across the world struggling to keep up numbers and profits (save the popcorn) it’s a genuinely odd thing to hear of a...
★★☆☆☆ Kristen Scott Thomas is fast becoming the go-to actor of choice for central roles in French/multi-national film productions entrenched in intrigue, lust and...
★★★☆☆ Following hot on the heels of last year’s French fancy This Our Still Life (2011), visual artist Andrew Kötting returns to selected cinema...
After the black slime has settled on the wrecked hopes of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012) has...
★★★☆☆ “My obsession is to make, pardon the expression, the fuckingest action movie ever.” With the recent release of Gareth Evans action film The...
★★☆☆☆ Written and directed by Ryan O’Nan (who also stars as hapless lead Alex), The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011) is a twee...
★★★★★ The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the long-awaited climax to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy was always guaranteed to be huge at the box-office. If...