Berlin 2015: ‘Queen of Earth’ review
★★★★☆ A chamber piece constructed in pallid pastel shades, Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth (2015) marks a tonal if not thematic departure from the […]
Berlin 2015: ‘Queen of the Desert’ review
★★☆☆☆ Revered Bavarian director Werner Herzog strains to marry his eccentric directorial style with the period epic in this rather stolid and strangely formal romance […]
Berlin 2015: ‘The Pearl Button’ review
★★★★☆ Arriving at the Berlinale with another probing examination into Chile’s harrowing past, The Pearl Button (2015) makes for a fitting diptych to Patricio Guzmán’s […]
Film Review: The Club
★★★★☆ Eschewing the historical context of his previous work, The Club (2015) sees provocative Chilean director Pablo Larraín, follow up the Oscar-nominated No (2012) with […]
Berlin 2015: ‘Chorus’ review
★★★★☆ A festering beauty of a film slowly reveals itself in this bleak but uplifting black-and-white study of grief from Quebeçois director François Delisle, an […]
DVD Review: ‘The Way He Looks’
★★★★☆ Last year’s Stranger by the Lake (also distributed by Peccadillo Pictures) marked something of a sea change in the transitioning of LGBT cinema into […]
DVD Review: ‘Palo Alto’
★★★☆☆ The feature debut of the most recent member of the Coppola clan to pick up a film camera, Gia (granddaughter of Francis), is also […]
DVD Review: ‘The Maze Runner’
★★★☆☆ Another year, another Young Adult book series optioned and adapted to spin into a trilogy (or more!) of action-packed and spectacular films. Based on […]
Glasgow 2015: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’
★★★★☆ Tragedy says “We all die”, whilst comedy says “Ah, but life goes on”. The winner of last year’s Golden Lion, Roy Andersson’s first feature film […]