Venice 2015 ‘The Wait’ review
★★☆☆☆ Entering the race for this year’s Golden Lion, Sicilian director Piero Messina’s The Wait (2015) is potentially an impressive twenty-minute short inflated into a […]
Venice 2015: ‘Rabin, The Last Day’ review
★★★☆☆ The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin on 4 November 1992 shocked the world. Showing in competition at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, Amos Gitai’s Rabin, […]
Venice 2015: ‘The Endless River’ review
★★☆☆☆ Some linguistic determinism is at work in Oliver Hermanus’ The Endless River (2015), a leaden-paced South African melodrama about the repercussions of a horrific […]
DVD Review: ‘Rosewater’
★★★★☆ Jon Stewart’s assured directorial debut Rosewater (2014) is a dramatic reconstruction of the real-life arrest and detention of Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and journalist Maziar Bahari […]
DVD Review: ‘Girlhood’
★★★★☆ Céline Sciamma proves with new film Girlhood (2014) that she’s adept at crafting universally accessible coming-of-age stories. In this newest go-round, Sciamma trains her […]
DVD Review: ‘Fast & Furious 7’
★★★☆☆ The (reputedly) final instalment of the flashy franchise that’s risen to prominence in pop culture over the past fifteen years is every bit as […]
DVD Review: ‘Bait’
★☆☆☆☆ Of all its numerous misdemeanours, the most heinous that Dominic Brunt’s vile Bait (2014) commits is its attempt to convince you that it isn’t […]