Film Review: ‘The World’s End’
★★★★☆ A fitting conclusion to the British director’s exceedingly loose ‘Blood and Ice Cream’ trilogy (see Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), Edgar Wright’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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Film Review: ‘Wadjda’
★★★★☆ Having already made history as the first full-length feature ever to have been filmed entirely inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Haifaa al-Mansour’s...
Film Review: ‘The Deep’
★★☆☆☆ A filmmaker torn between intimate tales set in his native Iceland and big-budget Hollywood genre pieces (next up is the Mark Wahlberg/Denzel Washington...
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Brood’
★★★★☆ Joining the Canadian master’s sci-fi classic Scanners (1981) on UK Blu-ray for the first time thanks to Second Sight, David Cronenberg’s gestating chiller...
DVD Review: ‘The Wee Man’
★★☆☆☆ The latest in a long line of north-of-the-border, ‘gritty’ British crime dramas, Ray Burdis’ The Wee Man (2013) has arguably more charm and...
Film Review: ‘Paradise: Faith’
★★★☆☆ Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith (Paradise: Glaube, 2012), the second chapter in the Austrian’s Paradise trilogy, begins with a semi-naked hausfrau flagellating herself in...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Kuroneko’
★★★★☆ The latest welcome addition to the Masters of Cinema’s growing Kaneto Shindô catalogue, the cult Japanese director’s 1968 film Kuroneko (Yabu no naka...
EIFF 2013: ‘I Am Breathing’ review
★★★☆☆ A documentary every bit as humorous and uplifting as it is tragic and melancholic, Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon’s I Am Breathing (2013)...
