DVD Review: ‘Storage 24’
★☆☆☆☆ Written, produced and starring Noel Clarke, Johannes Roberts’ Storage 24 (2012) is set against the backdrop of a military cargo crash in London....
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★☆☆☆☆ Written, produced and starring Noel Clarke, Johannes Roberts’ Storage 24 (2012) is set against the backdrop of a military cargo crash in London....
★★★★☆ “If you can get the King to visit your bed chamber on the first evening, you’ll be perceived as a great success.” This...
★★★☆☆ Completing the BFI’s accumulative DVD collection of ghost story adaptations, which over the years became a staple of the BBC’s Christmas and New...
★★★★☆ Written by Sleeping Beauty (2011) director Julia Leigh and starring Willem Dafoe, Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter (2011) is a peculiar beast of a...
★★★★☆ A key part of the BFI’s Ealing: Light and Dark season and rereleased this Friday, Robert Hamer’s It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)...
★★★☆☆ Almost perennially it seems, humanity’s favourite flightless birds – the humble penguin – descend in numbers upon UK box offices, looking to re-capture...
★★☆☆☆ One of two relatively high profile, Irish-produced features to screen at this year’s Film4 FrightFest (the other being Jon Wright’s hugely enjoyable alien...
★★★☆☆ Despite being over 30 years old, there remains a small pocket of fanatics habitually delving into the darkest recesses of the Overlook Hotel...