★★★★☆ The feature debut of playwright Debbie Tucker Green, Second Coming (2014) opens with a shot of a murmuration of starlings. Their symbolic meaning – and particularly their endlessly beguiling flight – is often interpreted as purporting to familial relationships […]
★★★☆☆ The laws of diminishing returns dictate that as a film series goes on, the more rote and tired that series becomes. Unless you’re a Fast & Furious franchise. But that’s only because the makers widened the goal posts and […]
★★☆☆☆ Chess has always leant itself kindly to cinema, affording both wider allegorical application and pleasing visual opportunities. Four Corners (2013) is the second film to arrive on British shores this year juxtaposing the ease with which a chess-whizz can […]
★★★★☆ There are few Hollywood stories as intriguing as that of Cannon Films, the independent distributor born from the ambitions of Israeli immigrants Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Throughout the 1970s and 80s the pair made a name for themselves […]
