DVD Review: ‘When China Met Africa’
★★★☆☆ With such a broad and sweeping title, When China Met Africa (2010) is an ambitious project to undertake by sibling filmmakers Nick and...
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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: ‘Viva Riva!’
★★★☆☆ African cinema is hitting its stride and heading north from the Johannesburg ghettos of Tsotsi (2005) and District 9 (2009) to the post-war...
DVD Review: ‘Stake Land’
★★★☆☆ Upon its UK release earlier this year, Jim Mickle’s post-apocalyptic vampire movie Stake Land (2010) – starring Connor Paolo, Nick Damici and Kelly...
DVD Review: ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’
★★★★☆ Known for his unforgiving and existentialist filmmaking, Werner Herzog’s latest offering Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) takes a fascinating look at the Chauvet...
Raindance Film Festival 2011: ‘After Fall, Winter’
★☆☆☆☆ A belated follow up to his 1997 shrug-of-a-movie Fall, Eric Schaeffer’s After Fall, Winter (2011) is the most narcissistic, shallow piece of filmmaking...
Raindance Film Festival 2011: ‘Tilt’
★★★★☆ Winner of the Best Debut Feature award at this year’s Raindance Film Festival, Viktor Chouchkov’s Tilt (2011) may well be flawed and occasionally...
Film Review: ‘Albatross’
★★★☆☆ Niall MacCormick’s British coming of age drama Albatross (2011) eloquently portays the collision between Emelia, a charming wayward teen played by Jessica Brown...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Amélie’
★★★☆☆ This week sees the cinematic rerelease (ahead of its Blu-ray release on 17 Oct) of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s modern day fairytale Amélie (2001), the film...
