Film Review: ‘For Those in Peril’
★★★★☆ Back in 2010, emerging Scottish director Paul Wright picked up a BAFTA for his short film Until the River Runs Red. Now, trying...
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1 May 2018
Interview: Andrew Haigh, dir. Lean on Pete
After the success of both Weekend and 45 Years, British director Andrew Haigh now turns his attention to America, with Lean on Pete. To mark the film’s release we caught up with the talented young filmmaker to discuss this challenging adaptation, loneliness, and working with horses.
11 November 2013
DVD Review: ‘Easy Money’
★★★☆☆ It’s not very often that you see a new UK release that’s already had a sequel made and circulated in its native country....
24 October 2013
Film Review: ‘Ender’s Game’
★★★☆☆ If there’s one thing to be said of Harrison Ford, now one of the highest grossing Hollywood actors of all time, it’s that...
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DVD Review: ‘Robot & Frank’
★★★★☆ There’s something rather appealing about a feature centred around the friendship between an elderly man and his robot, and any enthusiastic expectations placed...
Film Review: ‘Thérèse Desqueyroux’
★★★☆☆ Following on from the critical and commercial success of A Royal Affair (2012) and the Oscar-winning Anna Karenina (2012), it seems that the...
Film Review: ‘The Company You Keep’
★★☆☆☆ With a stellar cast consisting of an incredible nine Academy Award-nominated performers, it’s safe to say that the expectations for Robert Redford’s The...
Film Review: ‘Dragon’
★★★☆☆ The opening scene of Dragon (Wu xia, 2011) features a family eating together, uniting over a meal as they sit around the dinner...
Film Review: ‘Bernie’
★★★☆☆ Having languished on the festival circuit for the past few years – including a showing at the London Film Festival back in 2011...
Interview: Mathieu Kassovitz, ‘Rebellion’
Having burst onto the scene with the incendiary banlieue drama La Haine back in 1995, it’s fair to say that French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz...
Film Review: ‘Rebellion’
★★★★☆ Following on from this year’s Academy Awards comes Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion (L’ordre et la morale, 2011), a film certainly reminiscent of nominees Zero...
