Cannes 2013: ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’
★★☆☆☆ “There’s just no telling” says Bob (Casey Affleck) close to the end of David Lowery’s Texas-based criminal romance Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), screening […]
Cannes 2013: ‘The Great Beauty’ review
★★★☆☆ Il Divo and This Must Be the Place director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Italian cinema (with a capital ‘I’ and a capital ‘C’) courtesy […]
DVD Review: ‘Broadchurch’
★★★☆☆ The recycled storyline of outsiders invading close-knit communities, particular ones that are odd due to their remoteness, is espoused by Chris Chibnail for his […]
Cannes 2013: ‘Honey’ review
★★☆☆☆ Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino – perhaps most familiar to international audiences as Tom Cruise’s girlfriend in Rain Man – makes her directorial debut at […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Murderer Lives at 21’
★★★☆☆ At initial glance Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Murderer Lives at 21 (L’Assassin habite au 21, 1942) would appear to be mere comic folly from a […]
DVD Review: ‘The Films of Sadao Yamanaka’
★★★★☆ Having brought the relatively unknown (to Western audiences) Bakumatsu Taiyô-den (The Sun Legend in the Last Days of the Shogunate, 1957) to Blu-ray last […]
DVD Review: ‘West of Memphis’
★★★☆☆ Amy Berg’s sobering polemic West of Memphis (2012) shines a light on the failings of the American criminal justice system through the campaign to […]