★★★★☆ The Norwegian protagonist of Hans Petter Moland’s In Order of Disappearance (2014), Nils Dickman (Stellan Skarsgård), is a plough operator by profession, steadily carving a path towards his destination. It’s perhaps this occupational characteristic that best explains how such a man can turn from a respectable ‘citizen of the Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter’s You’ve Been Trumped was one of the unexpected gems of 2011; a blood-boiling j’accuse at American fat cat Donald Trump and, more specifically, his construction of a luxury golf course for the super-rich on a portion of Aberdeenshire’s vast and pristine coastal sand dunes. Fobbed off by Continue Reading
★★★★☆ There’s more than a touch of the macabre to Laika Studios’ latest stop-motion adventure, The Boxtrolls (2014). With a spellbinding voice cast featuring Richard Ayoade, Nick Frost, Jared Harris and Ben Kingsley, we find ourselves tumbling through a world where diminutive trolls dwell in the subterranean caverns beneath Cheesebridge, Continue Reading
★★★★☆ During one heated discussion in Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley (2013), a lecturer insists that a ‘revolution in ideas’ is the best strategy for eradicating the inequality prevalent in contemporary society. Thankfully, ideas are bountiful in this immersive voyage through the corridors and classrooms of the America’s most prestigious state-funded Continue Reading