Film Review: ‘A Field in England’
★★★☆☆ British director Ben Wheatley has a bold habit of experimentation, having previously married kitchen sink drama to comic crime thriller in 2009’s Down Terrace, […]
Film Review: ‘Tropicália’
★★★★☆ Championed by the likes of Talking Head David Byrne, Beck and eccentric Welsh songsmith Gruff Rhys, the popularity of this influential wave of Brazilian […]
Film Review: ‘Paradise: Faith’
★★★☆☆ Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith (Paradise: Glaube, 2012), the second chapter in the Austrian’s Paradise trilogy, begins with a semi-naked hausfrau flagellating herself in front […]
Film Review: ‘Confine’
★★☆☆☆ A great way to keep costs low, the single location setup has long been a keen ally of the no-budget filmmaker. The key, however, […]
Film Review: ‘The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser’
★★★★☆ Rereleased to tie in with a two-month retrospective at BFI Southbank, it’s been almost forty years since Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser […]
Film Review: ‘Out in the Dark’
★★★☆☆ ‘When boundless love meets sectarian boundaries’ is by no means the most enticing underpinning narrative; nor does it sound particularly controversial. However, Michael Mayer’s […]