★★★★☆ The hard-drinking, hobo-like existence of the two main characters from real-life siblings Alan and Gabe Polsky’s The Motel Life (2012) recalls the kind of blighted figures and transient lives found in the pages of those classic State-side literary works […]
★★★★☆ The follow-up to his blistering directorial debut Submarine (2010), The Double (2013) sees British comic and filmmaker Richard Ayoade turning his attentions further afield with an impressionistic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 19th century novella of the same name. Retaining […]
★★☆☆☆ It’s surely a sign that you’re getting old when you can sit through a film like Divergent (2014) – the new dystopian adventure based on the bestselling young adult book by Veronica Roth – and realise that you just […]
★★★★☆ Mark Cousins downsizes after his 15-hour opus The Story of Film (2011) with companion essay A Story of Children and Film (2013), which serves best as a side-project to his 2009 work The First Movie. His signature style of single […]
