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★★★★☆ French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has demonstrated a deft ability for creating fantastical worlds, as previously seen in Delicatessen (1991), The City of Lost Children (1995) and his big crossover hit, Amélie (2001). All of these showed a gift for […]
★★★☆☆ With the nation’s attention fixed on Rio and the 2014 World Cup, passions are running high. And yet, despite the lavish excesses and camaraderie that comes with such an illustrious event, football is still seen by many as a […]
★★★★☆ Iceland’s official submission to this year’s Academy Awards, Benedikt Erlingsson’s eccentric equine comedy Of Horses and Men (2013) has finally been let off the reigns. A rural anthology of curious fables, Erlingsson uses the communion between humans and horses […]
★★★☆☆ Oculus (2013), the latest chiller from Salem-born director Mike Flanagan, began life as a short back in 2006. It went on to be widely-praised in horror circles, and now he has adapted into a feature-length supernatural chiller about a […]
★★☆☆☆ Based on the previously well-documented true story of the West Memphis Three, Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot (2013) attempts to dramatise Mara Leveritt’s novelisation of the same name. The result is a melodramatic, calculable and subsequently dull procedural […]
★★★★☆ Inspiration for Amma Asante’s sophomore feature, Belle (2013), was a tad unconventional; an 18th century painting entitled Dido and Elizabeth, which depicted a sprightly-looking, well-dressed black woman with her white cousin. By the standards of the day, this was […]