
DVD Review: ‘Blood Simple’ (Director’s Cut)
★★★☆☆ The Coen brothers’ 1984 debut feature Blood Simple is a tense and gritty slice of film noir loaded with dodgy deals, double-crossing and duplicity. […]
★★★☆☆ The Coen brothers’ 1984 debut feature Blood Simple is a tense and gritty slice of film noir loaded with dodgy deals, double-crossing and duplicity. […]
★★★☆☆ An analysis of the Step Up! and/or Bring It On franchises would show that both sets of films follow a particular formula. Directed by […]
Last year, Coventry University East Asian Film Society (CUEAFS) founder Spencer Murphy had the pleasure of interviewing acclaimed Hong Kong auteur Pang Ho-cheung, alongside producer […]
★★★★☆ The seedy-sounding premise of Pang Ho-cheung’s Vulgaria (2012) may put-off some viewers with a sensitive disposition, but this Hong Kong sex comedy errs more […]
★★★★☆ To caption Lisa Aschan’s debut feature She Monkeys (Apflickorna, 2011) as a tale of burgeoning sapphic desire amidst the intense world of equestrian vaulting […]
★★★★★ A huge box office earner in its native Ireland last year, Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did (2012) went on to sweep the board at […]