Cannes 2016: Our Picks
The Croisette has been tuned and the red carpet swept. The giant poster unfurled above the Theatre Lumiere that fronts the great Palais du Cinema […]
Film Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
★★★☆☆ Is it possible, or even a good idea, to make a comedy about the war in Afghanistan? Directorial duo Glenn Ficara and John Requa […]
Film Review: Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
★★★☆☆ In the 1960s, a group of pioneering artists decided to abandon what they saw as the stale and restrictive world of New York’s art […]
Film Review: The Seventh Fire
★★★★☆ “About 1/10 every ten years makes it out of here,” says a father exasperated by his drug-peddling son. The outlook for young members of […]
Film Review: Our Kind of Traitor
★★★☆☆ After The Night Manager wowed audiences on the BBC, now another John le Carré adaptation comes to the silver screen. This time it’s Our […]
Film Review: Mustang
★★★★☆ In Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film Mustang, five young orphaned sisters – Lale (Günes Sensoy), Nur (Doga Zeynep Doguslu), Ece (Elit Iscan), Selma (Tugba […]
Film Review: Green Room
★★★☆☆ When John Carpenter made Assault on Precinct 13 in 1976, he readily acknowledged the influence he drew from George A. Romero in crafting the […]
Film Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
★★★★☆ Richard Linklater once again casts his outwardly laid-back yet deceptively astute gaze on those loitering around the edge of adulthood with Everybody Wants Some!! […]
Film Review: Cabin Fever
★☆☆☆☆ When film fans heard that a remake of Eli Roth’s 2002 horror Cabin Fever was on the horizon, it is safe to say that […]