DVD Review: ‘Bachelorette’
★★★★☆ Having followed in the pioneering wake of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England with a day and date cross-platform theatrical/digital-only UK release, Leslye...
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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: ‘How I Live Now’
★★☆☆☆ Apocalyptic teen angst is the order of the day in Kevin Macdonald’s limp and languid How I Live Now (2013), a functional –...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Convoy’
★★★☆☆ Based on the popular song of the same name by C. W. McCall (yes, really), Hollywood hell-raiser Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy (1978) gets an...
Film Review: ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’
★★☆☆☆ An obnoxious, Michael Moore-aping battle cry against big industry and its ties to climate change denial, Craig Scott Rosebraugh’s subtly titled Greedy Lying...
Blu-ray Review: ‘A Time to Love and a Time to Die’
★★★★☆ The latest work from German auteur Douglas Sirk to get the Masters of Cinema treatment (following the rerelease of The Tarnished Angels earlier...
Film Review: ‘Metro Manila’
★★★☆☆ British director Sean Ellis (Cashback, The Broken) swaps the comfortable environs of good ol’ Blighty for the mean streets of the Filipino capital...
Film Review: ‘Harrigan’
★★☆☆☆ The very fact that the lead star of Vince Woods’ hardboiled, alternative seventies crime drama Harrigan – British actor Stephen Tompkinson – is...
Film Review: ‘Diana’
★☆☆☆☆ Eyebrows were raised when German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel – best-known for depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler in 2004’s acclaimed Downfall –...
