Festivals

★★★★☆ The famous Bechdel Test – taken from a 1985 comic strip by Alison Bechdel – has over the past few years become an...

★★★☆☆ Sion Sono is nothing if not eclectic. Last year he dropped the gonzo bomb that was hip-hopera Tokyo Tribe (2014) on an enormously...

★★★☆☆ Earth is the fundamental element of Terence Davis’ sumptuous Sunset Song (2015), a lyrical adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel. Like an...

★★★★☆ The fate of Eva Perón’s body will surely go down as one of the more bizarre footnotes in history. Having been displayed to...

★★★☆☆ There are things both decidedly fresh and decidedly rote about Eva Husson’s hot-under-the-collar debut feature, Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (2015). The...

★★☆☆☆ Where on Earth do you start with Takashi Miike’s latest offering Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)? Perhaps the best place is with two words that...

★★★☆☆ “It takes a lot of determination to row against the current,” our polished protagonist Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) is informed upon his arrival...

★★★☆☆ The distant memory of former glories fuels the tragicomedy of Ivan Ostrochovský’s fiction feature debut, Koza (2015). The title is the Slovak for...