Blu-ray Review: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
★★★☆☆ Casting a critical eye over sacred films based on sacred texts is a pretty thankless task, especially when the story happens to be...
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6 September 2024
Film Review: Firebrand
★★☆☆☆ “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.
26 July 2024
Film Review: About Dry Grasses
★★★★★ 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.
21 June 2024
Film Review: Green Border
★★★★☆ 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.
Reviews
DVD Review: ‘Abduction’
★☆☆☆☆ Directed by John Singleton and featuring an all-star cast which includes The Twilight Saga star Taylor Lautner and young actress Lily Collins (soon...
DVD Review: ‘There Be Dragons’
★★☆☆☆ Let’s be clear about this – there are no dragons in Roland Joffé’s There Be Dragons (2011). Or, rather, the dragons are metaphorical....
DVD Review: ‘Sound It Out’
★★★★☆ Take an independent music store in a neglected area of the North East, a couple of diehard metal fans, a Status Quo rocker...
East Winds Film Festival 2012: Preview
In the middle of last week, Third Window Films in conjunction with the Coventry University East Asian Film Society (CUEAFS) officially announced the line-up...
Film Review: ‘Casablanca’
★★★★★ Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) falls into that special category of all-time greats, a phrase that has become so ubiquitous that it fails to capture...
Film Review: ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D’
★★☆☆☆ It’s only natural that a director so well-rehearsed in taking a beloved creation and rubbing it in our faces should turn to 3D....
Film Review: ‘Girl Model’
★★★☆☆ Thanks to the unrelenting juxtaposition of the sparse and relatively untainted Siberian landscape with the towering, industrialised metropolis of Tokyo, Japan presents the...
