Venice 2014: Sivas review
★★★☆☆ Turkish filmmaker Kaan Mujdeci’s debut feature film and Venice competition entry Sivas (2014) is a well-shot if slight story of a young boy who […]
Venice 2014: ‘Red Amnesia’ review
★★★☆☆ In a Venice that has been bizarrely bereft of strong female performances and roles – Bechdel tests at the ready – Xiaoshuai Wang’s Red […]
Venice 2014: ‘Pasolini’ review
★★★☆☆ Novelist, scenarist, journalist, political thinker, opinion maker and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini was and is a huge influence on Italian intellectual life and […]
Film Review: ‘White Settlers’
★★★☆☆ The most terrifying horror can often be found right on your own doorstep. Director Simeon Halligan’s Scottish chiller White Settlers (2014) proves that man’s […]
Film Review: ‘Watermark’
★★★☆☆ Water both resists and exists. It’s both the giver of life and the destroyer of futures. The Earth is covered by 71% of water, […]
Film Review: ‘They Came Together’
★★☆☆☆ The quest for a new take on the romantic comedy has been a vague Hollywood inclination since Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer (2009) […]
Film Review: ‘Sex Tape’
★★☆☆☆ Sex Tape (2014), the new US comedy from Jake Kasdan, starts off on the front foot with some funny sight gags and its leads […]
Film Review: ‘M’
★★★★★ There’s a tangible antipathy coasting throughout Fritz Lang’s M (1931), back in UK cinemas this week through the BFI. The mood is unbearable. Its […]