DVD Review: ‘Red State’
★★★☆☆ Kevin Smith’s career is coming to an end. That is not a judgement on hist latest film Red State (2011), but something he...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★☆☆ Kevin Smith’s career is coming to an end. That is not a judgement on hist latest film Red State (2011), but something he...
★★★★☆ Lars von Trier’s most accomplished movie since 2003’s Dogville was sadly overshadowed by the controversy this constantly provocative director evoked at last year’s...
★★★☆☆ With a vast array of blow-up dolls and sex toys and an abundance of simply laughable scenes, Sam Voutas’ Red Light Revolution (2010)...
★☆☆☆☆ Madonna’s second directorial feature (following 2008’s Filth and Wisdom), W.E. (2011) – starring Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy – parallels the infamous...
★★★★★ When critics talk about L’Atalante it usually doesn’t take long for them to start discussing the legendary short life of its director Jean Vigo,...
★★★★☆ A highly cerebral and often entrancing experience, John Akomfrah’s 2010 film The Nine Muses is a truly refreshing meditation on the search for...
★★☆☆☆ After the misguided, ethereal mess that was 2010’s Hereafter, it is almost incomprehensible to think that acclaimed American director Clint Eastwood could ever...
★★★☆☆ Coriolanus is of one of William Shakespeare’s most complex plays, making it a rather ambitious adaptation for Ralph Fiennes to choose as his...