Film Review: ‘A Dangerous Game’
★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter’s You’ve Been Trumped was one of the unexpected gems of 2011; a blood-boiling j’accuse at American fat cat Donald Trump and,...
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17 October 2024
#LFF 2024: It’s Not Me review
★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.
10 October 2024
#LFF 2024: Conclave review
★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.
11 March 2024
Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps the board
The winners of this year’s 96th Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning at LA’s Dolby Theatre. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner on the night, scooping seven Oscars in total including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
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Film Review: ‘Before I Go to Sleep’
★☆☆☆☆ Best summarised as a watered down Memento (2000) aimed firmly at the Richard and Judy’s Book Club crowd and based on the hugely...
Film Review: ‘Let’s Be Cops’
★☆☆☆☆ It’s hardly an ideal time to be marketing a film in which two average Joes abuse the civil justice system by imitating US...
Film Review: ‘The Guvnors’
★★☆☆☆ Looking to marry the football hooligan punch ’em up with Daily Mail-baiting hoodie horror, Gabe Turner’s The Guvnors (2014) does at least prove...
DVD Review: ‘Heli’
★★★☆☆ The third film from Mexican director Amat Escalante (Los Bastardos, Sangre), Heli (2013) could perhaps be accused of following the shoulder-shrug school of...
Film Review: ‘Two Days, One Night’
★★★★☆ Narrowly missing out on a hat-trick of Palme d’Or wins at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, socially conscious Belgian directing siblings Jean-Pierre and...
DVD Review: ‘Boardwalk Empire: Season 4’
★★★☆☆ All good things must come to an end, and time certainly appears to be up for Terence Winter’s rightly celebrated Prohibition-era crime series...
Film Review: ‘The Rover’
★★★☆☆ Australian director David Michôd turned heads back in 2010 with his superb debut feature Animal Kingdom, an intense, intertwining drama set within a...
