Film Review: ‘Mistaken for Strangers’
★★★★☆ Mistaken for Strangers (2013) is a rockumentary like no other: a behind-the-scenes expose of indie rock darlings The National from the perspective of Tom […]
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Uncertain Terms’ review
★★★★☆ Nathan Silver has been gradually nurturing a reputation as a director with a deft eye for detail and an astonishing ability for documenting the […]
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Snowpiercer’ review
★★★★★ A stunning, visionary example of dystopian science fiction cinema at its very best, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) – based in the […]
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Letters from the South’ review
★★★★☆ Six directors presenting six separate encounters from four Southeast Asian countries, Letters from the South (2013) explores the fluid relationship between the Chinese diaspora […]
Edinburgh 2014: ‘Hellion’ review
★★★☆☆ Teenage rebellion in the sundrenched plains of Texas is the subject of Kat Candler’s Hellion (2014), an ultimately unremarkable drama starring Breaking Bad’s Aaron […]
Edinburgh 2014: ’40 Days of Silence’ review
★★★☆☆ As the old proverb goes, “The best answer to anger is silence”. In Saodat Ismailova’s sensory meditation on the realities of womanhood, we become […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’
★★★★☆ Before the gloomy portent of The Deer Hunter (1978) and the majesty of Heaven’s Gate (1980), Michael Cimino’s debut, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), initially […]
DVD Review: ‘Stalingrad’
★★☆☆☆ Five months, one week and three days; that’s how long the battle of Stalingrad lasted. One of the bloodiest battles of WWII, the heavy […]
DVD Review: ‘The Sea’
★★★★☆ The debut feature from Stephen Brown, The Sea (2013) is a compassionate rendering of John Banville’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel. After losing his wife […]
DVD Review: ‘The Punk Singer’
★★★★☆ “I’m gonna finish my fuckin’ symphony.” That powerful phrase comes up as Kathleen Hanna recalls a musician friend’s defiant reaction to a hideous assault […]