DVD Review: ‘Gantz’
★★☆☆☆ The original manga version of Gantz shocked even hard-nosed fans when it introduced a whole new level of over-the-top violence, gore, and nudity....
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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: ‘Rio Breaks’
★★★★☆ Justin Mitchell’s documentary Rio Breaks (2009) follows the bitter-sweet story of Naama and Fabio, two residents of Rio de Janeiro’s notorious Favela de...
DVD Review: ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 8 Motion Comic’
★☆☆☆☆ Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 8 Motion Comic (2011) is a nineteen episode series that picks up a few years from where...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’
★★★★☆ Coming to the home market for the umpteenth time, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)...
DVD Review: ‘Chalet Girl’
★★☆☆☆ Directed by Phil Traill and starring Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Ed Westwick and Tamsin Egerton, Chalet Girl (2011) is a take on the...
Raindance Film Festival 2011: ‘Hollow’
★★☆☆☆ Was ever a film more aptly named than Hollow (2011), the new indie Brit horror from first time director Michael Axelgaard and writer...
Film Review: ‘Melancholia’
★★★★☆ It’s been over four months since Lar von Trier shocked the world’s press at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival by claiming he could...
Film Review: ‘La Piscine’
★★★☆☆ There are shades of vintage Chabrol in Jacques Deray’s 1969 psychological drama La Piscine, a tense but leisurely film starring French heartthrob Alain...
