DVD Review: ‘Girl Most Likely’
★★☆☆☆ Largely ignored by cinema audiences both in the UK and across the pond, directing duo Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Girl Mostly...
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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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Special Feature: ‘Directory of World Cinema: Brazil’
Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series makes a welcome return by delving into the burgeoning and enticing landscape of Brazilian cinema. As well as...
DVD Review: ‘Riddick’
★★★☆☆ The return of interplanetary badass Richard B. Riddick may well have come as a surprise to anyone who saw 2004’s sluggish sequel The...
DVD Review: ‘Kelly + Victor’
★★★★☆ Love hurts in more ways than one in Kieran Evans’ Kelly + Victor (2012), an impressive low-budget UK indie which, despite a couple of...
Film Review: ‘Last Vegas’
★☆☆☆☆ A quartet of venerable Hollywood greats come together to play supposed lifelong friends staging one last hurrah in Jon Turteltaub’s much delayed comedy...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
★★★★★ The first three action-packed escapades of everyone’s favourite teacher turned archaeologist are now available as separate entities on Blu-ray (mercifully, the fourth instalment...
DVD Review: ‘Only God Forgives’
★★★★☆ Met with an equal mix of derision and praise upon its cinema release, Only God Forgives (2013) is certainly one of the most...
DVD Review: ‘The Heat’
★★★☆☆ Raking in some serious dough at this summer’s box office, Paul Feig’s follow-up to his equally lucrative mega-hit Bridesmaids (2011) once again takes...
