Film Review: Casque d’Or
★★★☆☆ Jacques Becker’s 1952 French melodrama Casque d’Or celebrates its 70th anniversary this week with a deserved rerelease. Often overlooked in discussions of genuinely...
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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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DVD Review: ‘Killer Joe’
★★★★☆ Hitting roughly the same notes as Andrew Dominik’s recession resonant mobster tale Killing Them Softly (2012), William Friedkin’s Killer Joe (2011) is arguably...
Film Review: ‘Call Me Kuchu’
★★★★☆ A heartfelt and profoundly affecting exposé into the daily struggle faced by Uganda’s severely persecuted LGBT community, Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s...
Film Review: ‘Rust and Bone’
★★★★☆ High hopes were held for Palme d’Or nominee Rust and Bone (2012) prior to its Cannes competition premiere. The fourth feature from acclaimed...
Film Review: ‘The Penguin King 3D’
★★★☆☆ Almost perennially it seems, humanity’s favourite flightless birds – the humble penguin – descend in numbers upon UK box offices, looking to re-capture...
Film Review: ‘Stitches’
★★☆☆☆ One of two relatively high profile, Irish-produced features to screen at this year’s Film4 FrightFest (the other being Jon Wright’s hugely enjoyable alien...
DVD Review: ‘Silent Souls’
★★★★☆ A deeply mournful, semi anthropological ode to Russia’s long forgotten Merjan people – descendants of an ancient Finnic tribe, assimilated at some point...
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Caesar Must Die’ review
★★★★☆ Having already picked up the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival back in February and now Italy’s official selection for the...
