DVD Review: ‘The Frozen Ground’
★★☆☆☆ Based on the grisly case of serial killer Robert Hansen, Nicolas Cage and John Cusack star in Scott Walker’s functional yet largely forgettable...
★★☆☆☆ Compared to many authors, Virginia Woolf has fared relatively well on screen. Eileen Atkins’ one-woman stage show, A Room of One’s Own, that...
★★★☆☆ IVF remains a rarely discussed topic in cinema, even though millions of people go through it each year, which makes Harry Wootliff’s debut...
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy in which the peril lies...
★★☆☆☆ Based on the grisly case of serial killer Robert Hansen, Nicolas Cage and John Cusack star in Scott Walker’s functional yet largely forgettable...
★★☆☆☆ Director Justin Chadwick presents his protracted and ultimately disappointing biopic portraying the life of South Africa’s first democratically elected leader with Mandela: Long...
★★★★☆ After a slightly mixed response to the first instalment, Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth for the second part of his Hobbit trilogy, The...
★★☆☆☆ In recent years we’ve seen British actress Sheridan Smith step away from the image she crafted for herself in the Beeb’s Two Pints...
★★★★☆ The tone for John Lee Hancock’s pleasingly sentimental and richly layered Saving Mr. Banks (2013) is effectively set by a well-chosen verse from...
★★★☆☆ It may have picked up eight Oscars back in 1940, but Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind (1939) has lost some of its...
★★★☆☆ British director Iain Softley is something of a curio, having made films as diverse as Henry James adaptation The Wings of the Dove...
★★☆☆☆ Zombie movies, including Marc Forster’s recently released blockbuster offering World War Z (2013), can often become overly tied to generic conventions. Adversely, however,...