Kinoteka 2015: ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’ review
★★★★★ Wojciech Jerzy Has took great relish in toying with narrative convention in the nestled labyrinthine pages of The Saragossa Manuscript (1965). He dispenses with […]
Film Review: ‘Stonehearst Asylum’
★★☆☆☆ “Believe nothing you hear and one half of what you see”, is a line lifted from Edgar Alan Poe’s The System of Doctor Tarr […]
Film Review: ‘The Good Lie’
★★★☆☆ It’s not often that an actor who is arguably the fourth lead in a film gets top billing, an unfortunate but necessary marketing tactic […]
Film Review: ‘The Falling’
★★★☆☆ In August 2011, fourteen students from Le Roy High School in upstate New York inexplicable began exhibiting perplexing medical symptoms including, but not limit […]
Film Review: ‘Exit’
★★★★☆ Celebrated Taiwanese cinematographer Chienn Hsiang’s debut feature Exit (2014) is a tactile and strikingly vivid expression of isolation which alludes to wider national anxieties. […]
Film Review: ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’
★★★☆☆ It seems only fitting that England’s prized louche comic-turned-activist, Russell Brand, should find his latest on screen venture in Michael Winterbottom’s documentary The Emperor’s […]
Film Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’
★★★★☆ Widely-acclaimed Swedish director Roy Andersson’s latest offering, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) aims to demythologise the commercial image of […]