Film Review: ‘Tabu’
★★★★☆ Easily one of the strongest films on display at this year’s icy Berlin Film Festival and a firm contender for best feature of...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★★☆ Easily one of the strongest films on display at this year’s icy Berlin Film Festival and a firm contender for best feature of...
★★☆☆☆ Another month, another faux-found footage yarn that intends to rework genre tropes through a supposedly original take on the ‘lost in the woods’...
★★★☆☆ Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers (2012) may well be this year’s Venice Film Festival guilty pleasure. It stars two ex-Disney girls, High School Musical’s...
★★★☆☆ There is always likely to be an air of suspicion permeating a low budget science fiction epic that is produced and scored by...
★★★☆☆ The latest release from the Australian writer/director team of Nick Cave and John Hillcoat, Lawless (2012) features a gang of famous faces including...
★★★☆☆ British director Joe Wright is certainly no stranger to sweeping period adaptations, having taken on both Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Ian...
★★★★☆ Approximately 35 years after John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra created him, Judge Dredd is now one of the most popular comic book characters...
★★★★★ Following on from 2010’s sublime No Distance Left to Run – an in-depth look at the formation, split and eventual euphoric reunion of...