Film Review: ‘Violette’
★★★☆☆ The American writer Henry Miller once said that he hated writing but he loved having written, and it would seem he had a kindred spirit in the French writer Violette Leduc, who is at the centre of the eponymous […]
Film Review: ‘Still the Enemy Within’
★★★★☆ There are a series of events from a country’s recent past that illuminate with the ferocity of a burning church. The perfect storm of Margaret Thatcher gaining control of the Conservatives, her party’s return to government and a need […]
Film Review: ‘Luna’
★★★☆☆ Familial waters run especially deep in Dave McKean’s haunting new drama Luna (2014), which featured in the experimental Vanguard strand of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. In the director’s striking but uneven 2005 debut feature, Mirrormask, it was […]
Film Review: ‘Life After Beth’
★★☆☆☆ Of all the monsters that lurk amongst the shadows zombies have somehow prevailed, enduring where other ghouls have fallen, and in the process ambling and groaning their way through a myriad of cultural, political and economic anxieties. Jeff Baena’s […]
Film Review: ‘Le Jour Se Lève’
★★★★★ There’s bleak and then there’s Le Jour Se Lève (1939). To celebrate the film’s 75th anniversary, this week sees the release of an immaculate 4K restoration along with what the Independent Cinema Office are calling “new previously censored scenes […]
Film Review: ‘Gone Girl’
★★★☆☆ David Fincher knew exactly what he was getting himself into when he agreed to take on the big-screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn′s bestselling Gone Girl. Like 2011’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also based on a popular page-turner), […]