Film Review: ‘Total Recall’
★★★★☆ With Len Wiseman’s Total Recall (2012) remake due to hit screens this August, StudioCanal’s cinematic rerelease of Paul Verhoeven’s original adaptation of the...
★★☆☆☆ “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 Len Wiseman’s Total Recall (2012) remake due to hit screens this August, StudioCanal’s cinematic rerelease of Paul Verhoeven’s original adaptation of the...
★★★★☆ Australian director Daniel Nettheim adapts fellow countryman Julia Leigh’s philosophical thriller The Hunter (2011), in what is a compelling, if flawed, debut feature....
★★★★☆ In one of her performance pieces, Serbian artist Marina Abramović lies totally naked, having eaten a kilo of honey and drunk a litre...
★★★☆☆ “It’s not how hard you play, it’s where you put it”, flourishes 85-year-old Lisa Modlich with an acknowledgement towards the cameraman. Since her inaugural table tennis...
★★★★☆ If somebody were to ask you to look into a mirror, you’re not always guaranteed to like what you see reflected. US director...
★★★☆☆ After superseding a failed attempt at getting Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 off the ground (with both Raimi and Maguire unwilling to commit to...
★★★★★ The sci-fi cult classic Quatermass and the Pit (1967), directed by long-time Amicus and Hammer director Roy Ward Baker (who sadly died last...
★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter’s immensely compelling (and infuriating) low-budget documentary You’ve Been Trumped (2011) begins with a well-placed clip from Bill Forsyth’s acclaimed Scottish comedy-drama...