Film Review: ‘Johnny English Reborn’
★★★★☆ Seldom will you experience delight as in the sheer exuberance of Johnny English Reborn (2011). The sequel to Johnny English (2003), sees director...
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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.
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Film Review: ‘Midnight in Paris’
★★★★☆ Woody Allen’s continued underlying flirtation with fantastical situations – previously witnessed with the screen-fleeing charm of The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and...
Film Review: ‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World’
★★★★☆ Martin Scorsese’s moving documentary on The Beatles guitarist, George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011), succeeds on a number of levels. Combining...
DVD Review: ‘Metamorphosis’
★★☆☆☆ You’re in trouble when a film champions Mr. Highlander himself, Christopher Lambert, as its ‘star’. Metamorphosis (2007), by Hungarian director Jeno Hodi (responsible...
DVD Review: ‘The Insatiable Moon’
★★★☆☆ Apparently a huge hit with audiences back in its homeland of New Zealand, The Insatiable Moon (2010), was directed by Rosemary Riddell from...
DVD Review: ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’
★★★☆☆ The title of Kidulthood (2006) director Menhaj Huda’s latest film, Everywhere and Nowhere (2011), is directly quoted by its protagonist when asked where...
DVD Review: ‘Sawako Decides’
★★★☆☆ In Yûya Ishii’s Sawako Decides (2010), all the ingredients for a rites of passage rom-com are evident. In a world very similar to...
DVD Review: ‘Ju-on: The Grudge’
★★★★☆ Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-on: The Grudge is rereleased on DVD in two-disc special edition incarnation today, and its ability to chill you to your very...
