Film Review: ‘Everyday’
★★★★☆ One thing can be said for sure of prolific British director, Michael Winterbottom: he certainly likes a challenge. His latest is Everyday (2012)...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★★☆ One thing can be said for sure of prolific British director, Michael Winterbottom: he certainly likes a challenge. His latest is Everyday (2012)...
★★★☆☆ Helen Hunt’s nude scenes in Ben Lewin’s The Sessions (2012) were predictably the focus of media attention upon the film’s US release. Such...
★★★☆☆ Ballroom Dancer (2012), an unassuming but absorbing picture by Andreas Koefoed and Christian Bonke, follows the late-career travails of Ukrainian Latin dance prodigy...
★★★☆☆ “The results were astonishing.” This is, by far, the most recurrent turn of phrase used in Lee Fulkerson’s profound analysis on the western...
★★★★☆ Seth Holt’s Nowhere to Go (1958), starring George Nader, Maggie Smith and Bernard Lee, is a film which still packs a punch more than...
★★★★★ The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), starring legends of British screen Stanley Holloway, Hugh Griffith and Sid James, is one of those rare things seldom...
★★★☆☆ Those who simply can’t wait for Hollywood renegade (and ‘butt shut-downer’) Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012) to hit cinemas later this week –...
★★★☆☆ Having been released in its home country of Japan all the way back in 2007, The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God...