DVD Review: ‘Dom Hemingway’
★★☆☆☆ Imagine Sexy Beast’s Don Logan suddenly developing a heart halfway through Jonathan Glazer’s film. Unfathomable, isn’t it. This is the unfortunate trajectory of...
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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: ‘Don Jon’
★★★☆☆ As Don Jon’s (2013) opening credits present a series of images highlighting the objectification of woman in the media, juxtaposed with a thudding...
Film Review: ‘Need for Speed’
★★☆☆☆ Once again, that potentially lucrative and creative synergy between the gaming world and action cinema falls considerably short with the release of Scott...
Interview: Brie Larson chats ‘Short Term 12’
Next Monday (10 March) sees the release of Destin Daniel Cretton’s directorial debut Short Term 12 (2013) on DVD and Blu-ray, courtesy of Verve Pictures....
DVD Review: ‘Short Term 12’
★★★★☆ With Sundance hit Short Term 12 (2013), debut director Destin Daniel Cretton has crafted an intimate yet highly moving tale, bolstered further still by...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Phantom of the Paradise’
★★★★☆ Coming two years before his breakout commercial horror hit Carrie, Phantom of the Paradise (1974) finds revered seventies “movie brat” Brian De Palma...
DVD Review: ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’
★★★★☆ Admittedly, a “time-travelling indie comedy” may not be the most appealing concept upon first glance, but much like the characters in this charmingly...
DVD Review: ‘Machete Kills’
★☆☆☆☆ The somewhat mixed response to Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 spoof trailer turned feature, Machete, was an indication that audiences were tiring of seeing him...
