DVD Review: ‘The Patrol’
★★★☆☆ In starkest contrast to Peter Berg’s bombastic and bloody Lone Survivor (2013) (also released in UK cinemas earlier this year), ex-soldier Tom Petch’s...
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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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DVD Review: ‘Days of Grace’
★★★☆☆ Nominated for the Caméra d’Or prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Everardo Valerio Gout’s multi-layered Mexican crime drama Days of Grace (Días...
Film Review: ‘Wrinkles’
★★★☆☆ Personal battles against mental illness have long been the mainstay of cinematic drama, with countless deserving Oscar winners (and an even greater number...
Film Review: ‘The Love Punch’
★☆☆☆☆ If you were one of the many rubbed up the wrong way by Michael Hoffman’s lightweight yet likable crime caper throwback Gambit (2012)...
Film Review: ‘Locke’
★★★★☆ Cementing itself as one of the best British offerings of the year thanks to a tour de force solo turn from Tom Hardy...
DVD Review: ‘The Borderlands’
★★★☆☆ Touted in some quarters as one of the best British chillers of recent years – whilst more fervent supporters have heralded it as...
Film Review: ‘Rio 2’
★★☆☆☆ With the eyes of the world fixed on Brazil ahead of this summer’s World Cup, animated sequel Rio 2 (2014) swoops into cinemas...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Wake in Fright’
★★★★☆ Wrenched out of the earth and roundly dusted off for an overdue theatrical and dual format rerelease, Ted Kotcheff’s nightmarish Antipodean anomaly Wake...
