DVD Review: ‘Quartet’
★★★☆☆ American acting icon Dustin Hoffman’s long-awaited directorial debut, Quartet (2012), has met with optimistic anticipation, bolstered by the impressive cast which boasts national...
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12 July 2019
Film Review: Vita & Virginia
★★☆☆☆ 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...
11 July 2019
Film Review: Only You
★★★☆☆ IVF remains a rarely discussed topic in cinema, even though millions of people go through it each year, which makes Harry Wootliff’s debut...
25 July 2018
Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy in which the peril lies...
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Film Review: ‘Chimpanzee’
★★★☆☆ In the ever-watchable Chimpanzee (2012), Blue Planet producers Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield transport us to the Ivorian rainforests of Taï National Park,...
Film Review: ‘Dead Man Down’
★★☆☆☆ Whilst Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s original (and best) adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) possessed many notable...
DVD Review: ‘Jack Reacher’
★★★☆☆ Based on Lee Child’s gun-ho creation, rumoured Mission: Impossible 5 director Christopher McQuarrie presents solid actioner Jack Reacher (2012), starring Tom Cruise in...
Interview: Thomas Vinterberg, ‘The Hunt’
Prominent Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg returns to territory previously tackled in his much-lauded feature Festen (1998) this week with The Hunt (Jagten, 2012), a...
Interview: Ben Wheatley, director of ‘Sightseers’
Following on from the success of last year’s critically acclaimed occult horror Kill List (2011), rising filmmaker Ben Wheatley may not seem the most obvious...
Film Review: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’
★★☆☆☆ Continuing the current trend of bringing live-action fairytales to the big screen, Bryan Singer’s fi-fi-fo-fum fantasy Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) (not ‘Killer’...
Film Review: ‘Maniac’
★★★☆☆ We’re not in the Shire anymore, Mr. Frodo. Former hobbit Elijah Wood cuts an immeasurably darker figure in Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac (2012), a...
