DVD Review: ‘Forks Over Knives’
★★★☆☆ “The results were astonishing.” This is, by far, the most recurrent turn of phrase used in Lee Fulkerson’s profound analysis on the western...
★★★★☆ 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.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
★★★☆☆ “The results were astonishing.” This is, by far, the most recurrent turn of phrase used in Lee Fulkerson’s profound analysis on the western...
★★★★☆ Seth Holt’s Nowhere to Go (1958), starring George Nader, Maggie Smith and Bernard Lee, is a film which still packs a punch more than...
★★★★★ The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), starring legends of British screen Stanley Holloway, Hugh Griffith and Sid James, is one of those rare things seldom...
★★★☆☆ Those who simply can’t wait for Hollywood renegade (and ‘butt shut-downer’) Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012) to hit cinemas later this week –...
★★★☆☆ Having been released in its home country of Japan all the way back in 2007, The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God...
★★★★☆ The power of the lens to deconstruct colonial history is a primary concern in Miguel Gomes’ third feature, Tabu (2012). Partitioned by two...
★★☆☆☆ Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles first came to the attention of the wider cinemagoing public with 2002’s City of God, a wildly successful tale...
★★☆☆☆ It would be fair to say that Australian director John Hillcoat’s previously released feature, The Road (2009), had minimal action. His dour adaptation...