DVD Review: ‘After Lucia’
★★★★☆ Unfathomably overlooked for UK theatrical exhibition, Mexican director Michel Franco’s Cannes 2012 hit After Lucia (Después de Lucía) finally makes its way onto...
★★★★☆ 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.
★★★★☆ 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.
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.
★★★★☆ Unfathomably overlooked for UK theatrical exhibition, Mexican director Michel Franco’s Cannes 2012 hit After Lucia (Después de Lucía) finally makes its way onto...
★★☆☆☆ Poorly timed and fatally flawed, Fred Schepisi’s familial Aussie bitchfest The Eye of the Storm (2011) (adapted from the Patrick White novel of...
★☆☆☆☆ The inimitable Danny Dyer returned to UK cinema screens earlier this year in Ray Cooney and John Luton’s infamous Run for Your Wife...
This morning at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, the British Film Institute announced the full programme for the 57th BFI London Film Festival, a twelve-day...
★★★☆☆ Narrated by British national treasure John Hurt, Markus Imhoof’s More Than Honey (2012) serves as an impassioned ode to the humble bee, whilst...
★★☆☆☆ Winner of the sought-after Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival (to the surprise and chagrin of many an attendee), South Korean...
★★★★★ Pipped to the Palme d’Or post this year by Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza, 2013) is a...
★★★☆☆ The star of no less than four Thomas Harris novels and five big screen outings (the last, 2007’s Hannibal Rising, a commercial and...