DVD Review: ‘Mozart’s Sister’
★★☆☆☆ With the title Mozart’s Sister (2010), audiences could be forgiven for thinking that they are in for a historical biopic about Wolfgang Amadeus...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★☆☆☆ With the title Mozart’s Sister (2010), audiences could be forgiven for thinking that they are in for a historical biopic about Wolfgang Amadeus...
★☆☆☆☆ You wait years for a schlocky, tongue-in-cheek, sci-fiction B-movie about Nazis and then two come along at once. Landing on DVD only weeks...
★★☆☆☆ A nondescript North African mountain village, serves us the setting for French director Radu Mihaileanu’s re-imagining of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as a comedy drama...
★★★☆☆ Star of Sesame Street Elmo, the beloved red fur ball that loves to hug, is known the world over. But who is the...
★★★☆☆ Icelandic actor-come feature director Baltasar Kormákur explores the cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world of international smuggling with his latest effort Contraband (2012), starring Mark Wahlberg,...
★★★☆☆ Winner of four Academy Awards, director Hugh Hudson’s 1981 hit Chariots of Fire holds a great deal of nostalgia and charm but is...
★★☆☆☆ The Soul of Flies (2010) is a comic and at times poignant story of two brothers who have never met until their father invites them...
★★☆☆☆ In a week chock-full of films featuring young central leads, Belgian effort The Giants (Les géants, 2011) is probably the most derivative of...