Film Review: ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’
★★☆☆☆ Both world-renowned US funny man Steve Carell and pouting British starlet Keira Knightley are tricky characters to pin down; he, with his ‘average...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★☆☆☆ Both world-renowned US funny man Steve Carell and pouting British starlet Keira Knightley are tricky characters to pin down; he, with his ‘average...
★☆☆☆☆ Made on a shoestring budget in the sleepy Oxfordshire village of Kingston Bagpuize, and featuring an unknown cast incorporating local residents, humorist Guy...
★★★★☆ The Olympics have long proven to be an excellent stage for socio-political statements. At the 1968 Mexico Olympics, American 200m sprinters Tommie Smith...
★★★☆☆ Considering the press attention director Simon Aboud’s feature debut Comes a Bright Day (2011) so far has enjoyed, expectations are understandably high. Submarine...
★★★☆☆ Best known for directing cult classic American History X (1998), Tony Kaye is back with his latest release Detachment (2011). Having secured Edward...
★★★☆☆ Having premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Rebecca Thomas’ Electrick Children (2012) contorts the American Indie genre with a tale of teenage...
★★★★☆ Winner of the prestigious award for European Film Academy Documentary of the Year, prolific Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán returns to UK cinemas this...
★★★☆☆ Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey add to their arse-nal of recent impressive performances this year with Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike (2012), a surprisingly...