★☆☆☆☆ The ongoing digital revolution that has placed the means of film production into the hands of budding indie directors everywhere stutters somewhat with the release of British director Justin Hardy’s Love Me Till Monday (2013). A painful 89 minutes […]
★★★★☆ There could be an argument for three being the most cinematic of numbers. Some would argue two, others one, but it surely has to be three; it’s better than two because it simply isn’t about unity but disunity in […]
★★★☆☆ Descartes believed that nothing ever existed, that everything his mind told him was a lie, and cinema is of course a standing recourse for memory and the unresolved tensions that plague the unconscious. Film’s representation of loss and the […]
★★★★☆ Godfrey Reggio seems cursed to be forever looked upon as a perpetrator of the modes and forms of the music video and advert like his comrade in arms, Terrence Malick; but it’s they who have been asset stripped by […]
★★☆☆☆ Good intentions are the preserve of the deserved, which is a paradox that Berlin Film Festival prize-winner When I Saw You (2012) never completely overcomes. Following on from her acclaimed 2008 debut film Salt of This Sea, director Annemarie […]
★★★☆☆ When is too much enough and not enough moreish is the question one takes away from Sebastian Junger’s sequel to his award winning and epoch busting 2010 documentary Restrepo, which he co-directed with recently deceased photographer Tim Hetherington. Battle […]
★★★★☆ Marking the 30th anniversary of its UK debut, StudioCanal rereleases the highly influential The King and the Mockingbird (1980) in a fully restored version after a popular reissue in France last year, offering audiences both old and new the […]
