DVD Review: ‘Easy Money’
★★★☆☆ It’s not very often that you see a new UK release that’s already had a sequel made and circulated in its native country....
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.
★★★☆☆ It’s not very often that you see a new UK release that’s already had a sequel made and circulated in its native country....
★★★★☆ Cindy Meehl’s poignant portrait of horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, the subject of author Nicholas Evans’ bestselling novel and the 1998 Robert Redford Hollywood...
★★☆☆☆ Shot almost entirely against the glamorous backdrop of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-nominated director James Toback’s Seduced and Abandoned (2013) sets out...
★★★☆☆ “Fascists can be concerned citizens.” This statement, made at a press conference by then-New York mayor Ed Koch, is just one of the...
★★★★☆ Genuinely great science fiction films are few and far between. This leads to a curious trait in genre fans; the hunger for the...
★★★☆☆ The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ arrival in the UK in the late eighties was shrouded in controversy. British viewers were thought to be...
★★★☆☆ Building on their reputation for introducing overlooked terrors to a new generation, Arrow Films this week unleash director Wes Craven’s The People Under...
★★★☆☆ As well as being the man behind universally acclaimed masterpieces Metropolis (1927) and M (1931), famed Austrian-born director Fritz Lang is also renowned...