Film Review: ‘The Forgotten Kingdom’
★★★☆☆ Set largely in the mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho, The Forgotten Kingdom (2013) isn’t lacking for a spectacular backdrop to tell its gentle ‘hero’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.
★★★☆☆ Set largely in the mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho, The Forgotten Kingdom (2013) isn’t lacking for a spectacular backdrop to tell its gentle ‘hero’s...
★★★☆☆ Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was the Colombian drug lord par excellence. Ruling his own fiefdom of Medellín, he first made his money stealing...
★★★★☆ David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983), on Blu-ray this week through Arrow Video, sees the Canadian auteur at the peak of his pre- Hollywood career,...
★★★★☆ A contender for last year’s Palme d’Or – if not the most deserving, according to its modest director – Naomi Kawase’s Still the...
★★★★★ In an age where more films are available to us than ever before, the role of the curator is paramount. As the medium...
★★★★☆ Adding fuel to the long-running argument that quality television is overtaking and even overriding the contemporary cinematic landscape is The Knick (2014), whose...
★★★☆☆ Teen comedies have been responsible for a whole glossary of fictional slang, much of which has made its way into the real life...
★★★★★ The maturation of Charlie Chaplin’s genius both as a comic actor and film director can be appreciated in three DVD and Blu-ray releases...