DVD Review: ‘Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For’
★★☆☆☆ After an almost decade-long gap since Sin City (2005), you’d think that collaborators Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez would have made time to...
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5 December 2020
Film Review: Falling
★★★☆☆ The multi-hyphenate Viggo Mortensen can now add director to his list of creative endeavors with Falling, an austere familial drama which he also...
30 April 2020
Film Review: Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
★★★★☆ At an age when, for most, a trip to the bathroom would count as the most strenuous task of the day, ex-pat champion...
17 October 2019
Film Review: Mystify: Michael Hutchence
★★★★☆ A delve into the relatively short life of charismatic INXS frontman Michael Hutchence somehow feels long overdue. Perhaps because he was foremost a...
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DVD Review: ‘Finding Fela’
★★★★☆ The life of revered Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti almost feels too unwieldy and ambitious to fit into just one feature-length...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Pulp Fiction: 20th Anniversary Edition’
★★★★★ It’s hard to believe the film that launched a thousand talky, hipster-inflected indie movies and changed the whole face of the industry is...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’
★★★★★ Four decades after its release, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) still justifies its place in the pantheon of all-time horror greats. Fully ingrained...
Interview: Rocky Morton, ‘Super Mario Bros.’
The name Rocky Morton may not be instantly familiar with many of today’s film fans, but in the late 1980s he was the co-creator...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Super Mario Bros’
★☆☆☆☆ One of the earlier attempts to forge a creative and commercial symbiosis between the gaming and cinematic world, Super Mario Bros (1993) still...
DVD Review: ‘Chef’
★★★★☆ Jon Favreau returns from the creative wilderness following 2011’s tepid and workmanlike Cowboys & Aliens, cooking up something entirely different with latest offering...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Blacula: The Complete Collection’
★★☆☆☆ The Blaxploitation movement was renowned for bringing its own unique cultural spin to many well-trodden genres, and the world of classic horror proved...