DVD Review: ‘You Only Live Once’
★★★★☆ Released on DVD to celebrate its 75th anniversary, You Only Live Once (1937) is the epitome of what its legendary director Fritz Lang...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★★☆ Released on DVD to celebrate its 75th anniversary, You Only Live Once (1937) is the epitome of what its legendary director Fritz Lang...
★★★☆☆ If George Roy Hill’s 1969 film is to believed, infamous American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were both killed in a...
★★★★☆ Providing a new twist to a sub-genre as stale and fetid as that of the zombie movie is no mean feat, so great...
★★★★☆ With George A. Romero proving on a film-by-film basis that he no longer understands the culture he is attempting to satirise, now is...
★★★☆☆ Kriv Stenders’ big screen adaptation of Louis De Bernieres’ Red Dog (2011) tells the heart-warming story of how a small rough-and-ready mining town...
★★☆☆☆ Staying true to the fish-out-of-water formula favoured in such French films as The Visitors (1993) and My Uncle (1958), Hollywoo (2011) marries modern...
★★☆☆☆ Easily one of the strangest animations released over the last few years, French fancy A Monster in Paris (Un Monstre à Paris, 2011)...
★★☆☆☆ Adapted from one of William Shakespeare’s most complex, ambiguous plays, directed by British acting heavyweight Ralph Fiennes and with an ensemble cast that...