DVD Review: ‘Reality’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ The Taviani brothers explored a Shakespeare production performed by a group of prison inmates earlier in the year with Caesar Must Die...
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
Advertisements ★★★★☆ The Taviani brothers explored a Shakespeare production performed by a group of prison inmates earlier in the year with Caesar Must Die...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Niels Arden Oplev’s (director of the first in the original Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and the recent Deadfall)...
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Following on from a long tradition of portmanteau horror films from the classic Dead of Night (1945) to the more recent V/H/S...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ The very fact that rockumentary Beware of Mr. Baker (2012) exists at all is solely down to director Jay Bulger’s strange passion...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Straight from the pen of Aaron Sorkin and starring Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer and Alison Pill, HBO’s The Newsroom is released this...