Film Review: ‘Anna Karenina’ (2012)
★★★☆☆ British director Joe Wright is certainly no stranger to sweeping period adaptations, having taken on both Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Ian...
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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: ‘Boardwalk Empire: Season 2’
★★★★☆ Whilst still in its relative infancy (with Season 2 released on DVD and Blu-ray this week), HBO’s Prohibition era crime saga Boardwalk Empire...
Film Review: ‘Yuma’
★★★☆☆ Receiving a remarkable (and potentially lucrative) nationwide UK release courtesy of the Cineworld cinema chain – and obviously aspiring to draw in the...
Film Review: ‘[Rec] 3: Genesis’
★★☆☆☆ Whilst his former directorial partner Jaume Balagueró was off making FrightFest sleeper hit Sleep Tight (2012), Paco Plaza appears to have squandered his...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Rumble Fish’
★★★☆☆ Francis Ford Coppola Rumble Fish (1983) is the latest cult favourite to be given the Blu-ray treatment thanks to the Masters of Cinema....
FrightFest 2012: ‘After’ review
★☆☆☆☆ You won’t find many more misguided and excruciatingly dull features at this year’s Film4 FrightFest than Ryan Smith’s disastrous cut-and-paste job After (2012)....
FrightFest 2012: ‘Sleep Tight’ review
★★★★☆ One of the stand-out films of this year’s Film4 FrightFest, Jaume Balagueró’s Sleep Tight (Mientras duermes, 2011) is an incredibly nuanced Spanish chiller,...
FrightFest 2012: ‘Kill Zombie!’ review
★★☆☆☆ There’s little pretension to be found in Martjin Smits and Erwin Ven Den Eshof’s ‘Dutch of the Dead’ outing Kill Zombie! (Zombibi, 2012),...
