Film Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’
★★★★☆ First-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s Sundance phenomenon Fruitvale Station (2013) opens with mobile phone footage of Oscar Grant’s shooting by Bay Area police. During...
Film Reviews & More
Most Recent. In Patrick Gamble.
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...
Patrick Gamble
Film Review: ‘Cheap Thrills’
★★★☆☆ How low would you sink for just £10? How about £100? What type of degrading act would you perform for £1000? In E.L....
DVD Review: ‘The Armstrong Lie’
★★★☆☆ An investigation into the doping scandal that pushed American cyclist Lance Armstrong back into the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons, Alex...
Film Review: ‘Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys’
★★★☆☆ Having premièred at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Jessica Oreck’s Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys (2013) reaches UK cinemas this week on...
Film Review: ‘Touchy Feely’
★★☆☆☆ In Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely (2013), a massage therapist and holistics enthusiast finds herself developing a mysterious aversion to bodily contact. Eschewing the...
DVD Review: ‘Bastards’
★★★★☆ A nihilistic examination of how patriarchy is fundamental to social oppression through the interrogation of defined gender roles, Claire Denis’ Bastards (2013) is...
Sundance 2014: Kumiko review
★★★★☆ Following on from 2012’s Kid-Thing, a feverish tale about a destructive young girl operating freely beyond all tangible moral boundaries, the Zellner brothers...
DVD Review: ‘Kiss the Water’
★★★☆☆ “There’s no one as foolish as a fisherman,” declares one of Kiss the Water’s (2013) contributors, though it could be said that any...
