DVD Review: ‘The Crash Reel’
★★★★☆ From award-winning British director Lucy Walker comes her fifth full feature, the Sundance hit The Crash Reel (2013). A no-holds-barred look at the...
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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: ‘Nebraska’
★★★★☆ Back from his Hawaiian Island odyssey with George Clooney and The Descendants (2011), US filmmaker Alexander Payne (Election) returns to the American heartland...
Film Review: ‘A Long Way from Home’
★★☆☆☆ Opening to a glorious, sun-dappled French townscape before setting the tone of things to come with a clumsy, crossword led allusion to Joanna...
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
★★★★☆ The last of nine home cinema titles released by the BFI as part of their ongoing Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film season,...
Film Review: ‘Leviathan’
★★★★☆ The latest remarkable offering from Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (whose additional credits include Sweetgrass, Foreign Parts and the upcoming Manakamana), Lucien Castiang-Taylor...
Film Review: ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’
★★★★☆ Garnering numerous glittering reviews and eventually pulling in a global box office gross of almost $700 million, the inaugural entry in theHunger Games...
Film Review: ‘Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson’
★★☆☆☆ Adapted by Chris England from his own 2006 stage comedy of the same name and hoping to recapture some of the magic of...
Film Review: ‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’
★★★★☆ A well-publicised spat involving its two lead actresses and their director may have taken some of the sheen off a remarkable Palme d’Or...
