DVD Review: ‘Silent Souls’
★★★★☆ A deeply mournful, semi anthropological ode to Russia’s long forgotten Merjan people – descendants of an ancient Finnic tribe, assimilated at some point...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★★☆ A deeply mournful, semi anthropological ode to Russia’s long forgotten Merjan people – descendants of an ancient Finnic tribe, assimilated at some point...
★★★☆☆ “When a star with a small mass quietly loses energy, it becomes a white dwarf. It sheds its outer layers to form a...
★★★☆☆ Maverick Japanese film director Gakuryu Ishii returns after a ten-year hiatus with the unsettling farce Isn’t Anyone Alive? (2011), which receives a UK...
★★☆☆☆ Eduardo Sanchez was one half of the directorial team that unleashed the now prevalent found footage motif onto horror movies in 1999 with...
★★☆☆☆ If you’re a fan of amusing undead decapitations and bucket-loads of guts and gore, then up-and-coming director Matthias Hoene’s cheap and cheerful Cockneys...
★★★★☆ After the recent, turbulent News of the World scandal, the ethics and role of print media within a society addicted to social networking...
★☆☆☆☆ The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was the worst of its kind in history, with 300,000 people resettled due to an explosion in the fourth...
★★☆☆☆ ‘Inspired’ (the use of this term must not be inferred as carrying any weight of vision) by the bestselling book of the same...