This week sees the curtain rise on the 63rd incarnation of the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival (7-17th February). The festival opens in spectacular style with a World Premiere showing of latest offering from this year’s jury president, Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster – just one of the many films to Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Jonathan Levine, writer-director of 50/50 (2011) and The Wackness (2008), turns the zombie movie sub-genre on its head to successful, heartwarming and humorous results with Warm Bodies (2013), an adaptation of Isaac Marion’s bestselling post-apocalyptic novel. In a world ravaged by an unknown plague that’s left most of the population Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ “You are bad guy, but this does not mean you are bad guy!” That’s Zangief, of Street Fighter fame, counselling Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly), the villain of 1980s arcade game Fix-It Felix. A Capcom legend dishing out philosophy? It sounds like an idea programmed for success, but sadly, Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ With Alfred Hitchcock arguably the toast of 2012, celebrated with a year-long season at the BFI and his classic 1958 film Vertigo topping the Sight & Sound ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll, Sacha Gervasi attempts to prolong the celebration of the ‘Master of Suspense’ with his all-too-comfy biopic Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Completing Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s eclectic trilogy in style comes No (2012), a sophisticated, surprisingly humorous exploration of the opposition media campaign that ultimately brought an end to the country’s damaging dictatorship. Featuring an impressive lead performance from pint-sized Spanish language star Gael García Bernal and welcoming back his Continue Reading