Film Review: ‘Mud’
★★★★☆ Having previously impressed with his 2008 debut Shotgun Stories and the infinitely wider-seen Take Shelter (both starring the excellent Michael Shannon), Arkansas-born director...
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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: ‘Village at the End of the World’
★★★☆☆ Having already screened to receptive audiences at last year’s London Film Festival, Sarah Gavron’s Village at the End of the World (2012) hits...
DVD Review: ‘The Impossible’
★★★☆☆ Based on the harrowing true story of one family caught up in the 2004 tsunami, Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) returned...
Film Review: ‘I’m So Excited’
★★★☆☆ To say that Pedro Almodóvar’s Pointer Sisters-referencing I’m So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros, 2013) is one of the flamboyant Spanish auteur’s more inconsequential...
DVD Review: ‘You Will Be My Son’
★★★☆☆ The third feature from French director Gilles Legrand, You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils, 2011) sees the inimitable Niels Arestrup...
DVD Review: ‘Trashed’
★★★☆☆ Having, for one reason or another, missed out on the opportunity of a UK theatrical run, British writer-director Candida Brady’s 2012 human waste...
Sundance 2013: Blackfish review
★★★★☆ Newly positioned as one of this year’s most anticipated American documentaries following rave reviews at Sundance, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Blackfish (2013) makes its way...
Film Review: ‘Scarecrow’
★★★★☆ Winner of the Palme d’Or prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, American photographer and filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg’s seldom-seen odd couple dramedy Scarecrow...
