Film Review: ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’
★★☆☆☆ The suitably named Thor Freudenthal helms Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), the sequel to the semi-popular 2010 fantasy adventure Percy Jackson and...
★★★★☆ An acerbic social satire, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva’s latest reflects a cultural malaise rooted in cultural ennui. More than a casual swipe at modern social trends, Rotting in the Sun exposes a kind of cruelty, alienation, and social stratification that is only as modern as the technology through which it expresses itself.
★★★☆☆ Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made the treatment of the great, the famous and the powerful his topic of preference, eschewing the lower end of the social scale that first made him famous with films such as Tony Manero and Post Mortem. Nothing has quite gone as far as El Conde, however.
★★★★★ Childhood friends Na-Young (Greta Lee) and Hae-Sung’s (Yoo Teo) young lives are irrevocably changed when Na-Young’s family emigrate from South Korea to Canada, until the pair reconnect twelve years later. Past Lives, a film about love, friendship and fate, is an astonishing debut from South Korean-Canadian director Celine Song.
★★★★☆ American indie director Ira Sachs returns to UK screens with his comic romantic drama Passages, a pointed, revealing study of selfishness and an all-too familiar portrait of emotional indulgence, bolstered by three excellent lead performances.
★★☆☆☆ The suitably named Thor Freudenthal helms Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), the sequel to the semi-popular 2010 fantasy adventure Percy Jackson and...
★★☆☆☆ Heard on radios and seen in books since the 1930s, a masked lawman and his faithful Native American sidekick galloped into hearts and...
★★★★☆ British comedian Steve Coogan’s beloved Norwich-based media whore Alan Partridge has bounced back numerous times over his 21-year career, first appearing on Radio...