Film Review: Generation Wealth
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ “Greed isn’t good” remains the predominant message in Laura Greenfield’s sporadically engrossing and frequently overreaching look at the culture of capitalism. Generation...
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5 December 2020
Film Review: Falling
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ The multi-hyphenate Viggo Mortensen can now add director to his list of creative endeavors with Falling, an austere familial drama which he...
30 April 2020
Film Review: Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
Advertisements ★★★★☆ At an age when, for most, a trip to the bathroom would count as the most strenuous task of the day, ex-pat...
17 October 2019
Film Review: Mystify: Michael Hutchence
Advertisements ★★★★☆ A delve into the relatively short life of charismatic INXS frontman Michael Hutchence somehow feels long overdue. Perhaps because he was foremost...
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DVD Review: The Ice King
Advertisements ★★★★☆ John Curry might not be a name immediately recognisable to younger sporting fans, but after a successful competitive career on the ice...
DVD Review: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Advertisements ★★★★☆ The beautifully constructed opening credits to Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes are set fifty years after the character’s supposed...
DVD Review: George A. Romero Between Night and Dawn
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Following the success of Night of the Living Dead, the late George A. Romero became something of a one-man movie studio in...
Film Review: Double Date
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ There’s blood and banter in equal measure throughout Benjamin Barfoot’s dark, irreverent comedy horror Double Date. The thundering opening credits, accompanied by...
DVD Review: My Beautiful Laundrette
Advertisements ★★★★☆ An Asian gentleman boisterously raising a glass to “this damn country, which we love and hate” perfectly encapsulates the conflicted nature of...
DVD Review: Peppermint Soda
Advertisements ★★★★☆ It’s rare to see a rites of passage film told exclusively from the female perspective. With this BFI-sanctioned re-release, we’re privy to...
DVD Review: Hard Times
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Eureka Entertainment have been fortuitous in releasing this debut from famed action director Walter Hill while he’s enjoying a renewed interest in...