DVD Review: ‘Devoured’
★★☆☆☆ Devoured (2012), the new horror from Lemmy director Greg Olliver, has commendable aspirations of being a shocking and twisted original. However, whilst it...
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.
★★☆☆☆ Devoured (2012), the new horror from Lemmy director Greg Olliver, has commendable aspirations of being a shocking and twisted original. However, whilst it...
★★★★☆ Unfathomably overlooked for UK theatrical exhibition, Mexican director Michel Franco’s Cannes 2012 hit After Lucia (Después de Lucía) finally makes its way onto...
★★★☆☆ The language of punk can be equally as consoling as it is pugnacious. At its core, punk embraces eccentricities and shits on social...
★★☆☆☆ A social networking period drama (if there is such a thing), Andrew Douglas’ Uwantme2killhim? (2013) is based loosely on a true story that...
★★☆☆☆ Poorly timed and fatally flawed, Fred Schepisi’s familial Aussie bitchfest The Eye of the Storm (2011) (adapted from the Patrick White novel of...
★☆☆☆☆ The inimitable Danny Dyer returned to UK cinema screens earlier this year in Ray Cooney and John Luton’s infamous Run for Your Wife...
★★★★☆ New York-based Indian director Mira Nair was well-placed to helm a big-screen adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist – and thankfully...
★★★★☆ The best sports films are often those where enjoyment is not entirely dependent on a love of the game in question, and Brian...