DVD Review: ‘Kinetta’
★★★☆☆ The search for meaning can be a futile task in a world obsessed with imagined realities; especially when the line between fact and...
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14 April 2023
Film Review: Three Colours Trilogy
★★★★★ Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours Trilogy stars Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacob in three of the most revered pieces of European cinema ever made. Named after the colours of the French flag (Blue, White and Red), the films are loosely based on the three political ideals of the French Republic; Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
23 August 2022
Sarajevo 2022: Our festival highlights
The Sarajevo Film Festival has a history of resilience, so it was hardly surprising to see it come back stronger than ever after two years of Covid restrictions. Founded in 1995, the festival is now the leading industry event in south-east Europe, showcasing the very best films from across the Balkan peninsula.
22 October 2020
Film Review: Cinema Paradiso
★★★★☆ A major contributor to the reverential narrative of wistful cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore’s magnum opus Cinema Paradiso is an elegant distillation of the form’s...
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Film Review: ‘Wild’
★★☆☆☆ After the Oscar success of last year’s Dallas Buyers Club (2013), where both Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto walked away with awards, Jean-Marc Vallée...
Film Review: ‘Enemy’
★★★☆☆ Adapted from Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago’s The Double, Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013) employs the familiar narrative device of the doppelgänger to explore...
Film Review: ‘Stray Dogs’
★★★★★ A meditative, often gruelling slowburner which explores concepts of ‘home’, Tsai Ming-liang’s remarkable Stray Dogs (2013) seeks to investigate the poor’s right to...
Film Review: ‘St. Vincent’
★★★☆☆ Despite cultivating an identity as one of cinema’s most loveable malcontents, Bill Murray’s achievements remain unrecognised by the Academy. However, thanks to Theodore...
DVD Review: ‘White Reindeer’
★☆☆☆☆ Even as far back as 1843, when Charles Dickens penned his illustrious novella A Christmas Carol, the materialism of Christmas was already apparent....
Film Review: ‘Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy’
★★☆☆☆ The internet use to be a place to hide, a refuge in which online gamers, chat room enthusiasts and message board trolls could...
Film Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’
★★★☆☆ The Hunger Games has become a cultural phenomenon over the past seven years with Suzanne Collins’ alternative visions of gender and class inspiring...
