Film Review: ‘Grand Central’
★★★☆☆ Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central (2013) arrives in UK cinemas this week after bagging the Prix François Chalais at Cannes last year. Zlotowski again...
★★★☆☆ ‘Second time’s a charm’ is not the feeling that hits home when reflecting upon the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, the opening film of...
The Un Certain Regard section was where the debut feature, A Girl at My Door (2014) from South Korean director July Jung unspooled to...
★☆☆☆☆ The way Bryn Higgins’ sophomore feature, Electricity (2014), sees itself is perhaps an integral part of its ultimate failure. It considers itself as...
★★★☆☆ Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central (2013) arrives in UK cinemas this week after bagging the Prix François Chalais at Cannes last year. Zlotowski again...
★★★★★ The term ‘alien’ is originally descended from the Latin expression ‘alienus’, roughly translating into modern English as something ‘belonging to another’. This points...
★★★★☆ A revolution is a perpetually evolving entity, a constant presence in the lives of its participants. And yet, it’s rarely seen nor heard...
★★☆☆☆ Jean-Baptiste Poquelin – or Molière to use his nom de plume – created comedy out of farce and underlaid a fierce anger that...
★★★★☆ Immediacy is now as important as content for a certain type of documentary. This statehood has been pushed into circumstance by the availability...
★☆☆☆☆ The ongoing digital revolution that has placed the means of film production into the hands of budding indie directors everywhere stutters somewhat with...
★★★★☆ There could be an argument for three being the most cinematic of numbers. Some would argue two, others one, but it surely has...
★★★☆☆ Descartes believed that nothing ever existed, that everything his mind told him was a lie, and cinema is of course a standing recourse...