DVD Review: ‘That’s My Boy’
★☆☆☆☆ Every once in a while, a film comes along which makes you plain embarrassed to have even watched it. Universally panned Hollywood ‘comedy’...
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.
★☆☆☆☆ Every once in a while, a film comes along which makes you plain embarrassed to have even watched it. Universally panned Hollywood ‘comedy’...
★★★★☆ Seldom do films instil such genuine unease in the viewer as Claustrofobia (2011), a new horror thriller from the Netherlands. The debut outing...
★★☆☆☆ Like many a low-budget American indie horror, director Chris Stokes’ The Helpers (2012) has followed a fairly conventional distribution trajectory. It managed a...
★★★☆☆ Following recent retrospective Ealing: Light and Dark, which reintroduced cinemagoers to the lesser known body of work of the distinctly British studio, StudioCanal...
★★★☆☆ Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years (or don’t own a television), you’ll more than likely be aware...