Interview: Ciro Guerra, dir. Embrace of the Serpent
Colombian auteur Ciro Guerra’s latest film, Embrace of the Serpent, first screened in the Director’s Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (where...
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13 February 2019
Film Review: A Private War
★★★★★ Matthew Heineman, best-known for his acclaimed documentaries Cartel Land and City of Ghosts, seamlessly makes the transition to fiction with the utterly absorbing...
25 January 2019
Film Review: Vice
★★★★☆ When historians look back at the rise of populism and anti-establishment feeling in the early years of the 21st century, they will almost...
12 January 2019
Film Review: Colette
★★★☆☆ Director Wash Westmoreland’s latest film, based on a screenplay written jointly by himself, his late husband Richard Glatzer and British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz,...
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Film Review: Mon Roi
★★★★★ On paper, Mon Roi sounds like the simplest of films. A woman meets a man, and they fall in love. They fight a...
Film Review: Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
★★★☆☆ In the 1960s, a group of pioneering artists decided to abandon what they saw as the stale and restrictive world of New York’s...
Film Review: Mustang
★★★★☆ In Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film Mustang, five young orphaned sisters – Lale (Günes Sensoy), Nur (Doga Zeynep Doguslu), Ece (Elit Iscan), Selma...
Film Review: Florence Foster Jenkins
★★☆☆☆ The story of Florence Foster Jenkins is almost too strange to be true. A wealthy New York socialite and passionate patron of the...
Film Review: Heaven Knows What
★★★☆☆ We all know that some people take heroin but for most of us it is what “those people” do, a practice beyond the...
Film Review: Eye in the Sky
★★★★☆ It’s one of the most oldest moral dilemmas in the book: if you could save dozens of lives by taking that of an...
DVD Review: Horse Money
★★★★☆ Horse Money is one of those films that makes more sense after watching than during. Pedro Costa’s latest feature has no conventional narrative...
