Film Review: ‘Northern Soul’
★★★★☆ It’s easy to forget that before the commercialisation of youth culture, movements emerged which offered a grand escapism and an exciting alternative 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: ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’
★★★★☆ In a town hardly renowned for its nurturing instincts and loyalty, Shep Gordon would appear to be something of an anomaly. The veteran...
DVD Review: ‘Joe’
★★★★☆ It’s always heartening to witness a triumphant return to filmmaking form, and David Gordon Green’s Joe (2013) represents something of a double whammy....
DVD Review: ‘The Walking Dead: Season 4’
★★★★★ The collective disaffection expressed by the geek contingent when it was revealed that Frank Darabont was exiting as showrunner on The Walking Dead...
DVD Review: ‘300: Rise of an Empire’
★★☆☆☆ Watching 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), a belated sequel to Zack Snyder’s blockbusting swords and sandals breakthrough 300 (2006), you can just...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Night of the Comet’
★★★☆☆ Arrow Video has once again dug down deep into the cornucopia of neglected cult titles to unearth a gem. Thom Eberhardt’s cheaply-made but...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Goldfinger’
★★★★★ Celebrating the 50th anniversary with a special gold-rimmed Steelbook, it’s easy to see why Guy Hamilton’s Goldfinger (1964) remains, for many, the quintessential...
Film Review: ‘Grand Piano’
★★★★☆ Take your seats for the next performance of Eugenio Mira’s preposterous but breathlessly entertaining thriller, Grand Piano (2013). It’s a genre piece packed...
