Film Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
★★★☆☆ ‘Magestical’ isn’t necessarily a real word but it perfectly sums up Kiwi director Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Invented by Sam Neill’s...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★☆☆ ‘Magestical’ isn’t necessarily a real word but it perfectly sums up Kiwi director Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Invented by Sam Neill’s...
★★★☆☆ Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods… It’s been seventeen years since unprepared audiences were first scared...
★★★★☆ Something of a forgotten gem, 1993’s Matinee sits between Gremlins and Toy Soldiers in director Joe Dante’s oeuvre. John Goodman steals the show...
★★★★★ It’s not hard to see the appeal of Robert Aldrich’s The Flight of the Phoenix, a riveting adventure film featuring an all-star cast...
★★★★☆ Having directed two crime films, Japanese director Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano downshifted in 1991 with A Scene at the Sea, a simple and direct...
★★★☆☆ Ridley Scott’s influence weighs heavily on the concept and themes of Morgan, the debut feature by his son, Luke. The premise – scientists...
★★★☆☆ In this his debut film, Belgian photographer Pieter-Jan De Pue blends fiction and documentary to locate a deeper truth in Afghanistan’s tortured history...
★★★★☆ A young boy with a magical shamisen and a penchant for origami may not seem like the obvious choice to head a sweeping...