Blu-ray Review: ‘Gregory’s Girl’
★★★★☆ Following on from the recent rerelease of his 1979 debut That Sinking Feeling, Bill Forsyth’s teen rom-com Gregory’s Girl (1981) has also undergone...
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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: ‘Big Bad Wolves’
★★☆☆☆ Quentin Tarantino last year lauded Big Bad Wolves (2013), the second feature from Israeli filmmakers Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (following on from...
Blu-ray Review: ‘That Sinking Feeling’
★★★☆☆ The debut feature from beloved Scottish writer and director Bill Forsyth (best known for such classic regional offerings as Gregory’s Girl and Local...
DVD Review: ‘Celluloid Man’
★★★★☆ Cinematic fanaticism has been tackled in factual form before, perhaps most notably in Xan Cassavetes’ Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (a title which...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Pit Stop’
★★★☆☆ Pit Stop, a 1969 collaboration between B-movie king Roger Corman and director Jack Hill (renown primarily for his work across a number of...
DVD Review: ‘Oldboy’
★☆☆☆☆ American remakes of revered foreign language classics invariably fall short of the original, their unique quality and personality often lost in the cultural...
Film Review: ‘The Motel Life’
★★★★☆ The hard-drinking, hobo-like existence of the two main characters from real-life siblings Alan and Gabe Polsky’s The Motel Life (2012) recalls the kind...
Blu-ray Review: ‘White of the Eye’
★★★☆☆ Having gained cult status over the years, enigmatic Scottish-born director Donald Cammell’s White of the Eye (1987) is everything you’d expect from the...
