DVD Review: ‘Starred Up’
★★★★☆ The young male inmate rallying against the system is hardly untapped territory in film, but with Starred Up (2013) writer Jonathan Asser and...
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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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Film Review: ‘A Promise’
★☆☆☆☆ It’s been almost two decades since idiosyncratic French filmmaker Patrice Leconte delivered a near-masterpiece in the form of 1996’s Ridicule, an opulent and...
Film Review: ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’
★★★☆☆ Partially funded by Kickstarter, Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013) arrives in selected UK cinemas this week having picked up a...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Rapture’
★★★★☆ Another forgotten gem given new life on DVD and Blu-ray here in the UK, John Guillermin’s Rapture (1965) is a beautifully-made and challenging...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins’
★★☆☆☆ For every Hollywood franchise to complete the victory lap, there are those unfortunate ventures which fall at the first hurdle. The latter was...
Film Review: ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man’
★★★☆☆ It was perhaps inevitable that Swedish author Jonas Jonasson’s popular 2009 novel, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, would...
DVD Review: ‘Non-Stop’
★★☆☆☆ Competing for the record number of red herrings in a single motion picture, Non-Stop (2013) initially teases ninety minutes of high-concept fun, but...
Film Review: The Fault in Our Stars
★★★★☆ The story of a burgeoning love affair between two teenage cancer sufferers from an insanely popular title in young adult literature (more than...
