FrightFest 2014: ‘All Cheerleaders Die’ review
★★★☆☆ Devoted horror fans Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson combine for knowing FrightFest 2014 offering All Cheerleaders Die (2013), a jocular genre piece that...
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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: ‘Deliver Us from Evil’
★★☆☆☆ The bible has long served as one of the great repositories of supernatural folklore in western culture. It raises its head again in...
DVD Review: ‘Labor Day’
★★☆☆☆ Based on the Joyce Maynard novel of the same name, Labor Day (2013) sees Canadian director Jason Reitman undertake a marked departure from...
DVD Review: ‘Visitors’
★★★☆☆ A trance-like meditation on humanity’s relationship with technology, Godfrey Reggio’s non-narrative documentary Visitors (2013) is an anthropological examination of postmodernity and capitalism’s affects...
Special Feature: A Century of Chinese Cinema at the BFI
This July, the BFI’s A Century of Chinese Cinema season (which runs all the way up until 7 October) shifts its focus towards the...
DVD Review: ‘In Bloom’
★★★★☆ Based on her own experiences growing up in Georgia, Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’ In Bloom (2013) uses adolescence as the conduit in...
DVD Review: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
★★★★☆ Moonrise Kingdom (2013) was the final nail in the coffin for Wes Anderson’s detractors, with many calling for a moratorium on the director’s...
DVD Review: ‘The Guillotines’
★★☆☆☆ From Andrew Lau, the renowned director of Infernal Affairs (2002), comes The Guillotines (2012), an erratic wuxia epic that struggles to conjoin the...
