Film Review: ‘Madame de…’
★★★★★ Leading American film critic Andrew Sarris once nominated 1953’s Madame de… as his candidate for ‘the greatest film of all time’ – high praise […]
Film Review: ‘Reign of Assassins’
★★★☆☆ Chao-Bin Su’s Reign of Assassins (Jianyu, 2010) is a Chinese martial arts movie that, whilst formulaic in places, still manages to exceed the expectations […]
Film Review: ‘Beautiful Creatures’
★★☆☆☆ It’s almost too easy to be cynical about a film like Richard LaGravenese’s Beautiful Creatures (2013). With the blockbusting Twilight franchise currently sitting comfortably […]
Berlin 2013: ‘Interior. Leather Bar.’ review
★★☆☆☆ Polymath James Franco and director Travis Mathews take it upon themselves to re-imagine the lost 40-minutes of William Friedkin’s controversial drama Cruising (1980) in […]
Berlin 2013: ‘The Meteor’ review
★★★★☆ French-Canadian director François Delisle’s fourth film, The Meteor (Le météore, 2013), is an avant-garde exploration of isolation that quite rightly appears in the Berlin […]
Berlin 2013: ‘Dark Blood’ review
★★★☆☆ “You’re a disturbing young man” says Buffy (Judy Davis) to Boy (River Phoenix). The latter is showing the former around a fallout shelter in […]
Film Review: ‘For Ellen’
★★★☆☆ Bonds between children and their parents have been significantly prominent in the blossoming career of South Korean director So Yong Kim. Her first two […]
Film Review: ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’
★☆☆☆☆ To this day, Die Hard (1988) is still regarded as one of the quintessential action movies of our time. It birthed a new action […]