Film Review: Heaven Knows What
★★★☆☆ We all know that some people take heroin but for most of us it is what “those people” do, a practice beyond the fringes of mainstream society we engage with at a distance – if at all – through […]
Film Review: Eye in the Sky
★★★★☆ It’s one of the most oldest moral dilemmas in the book: if you could save dozens of lives by taking that of an innocent, would you do it? Could you sleep at night, knowing that you were responsible for […]
DVD Review: Horse Money
★★★★☆ Horse Money is one of those films that makes more sense after watching than during. Pedro Costa’s latest feature has no conventional narrative to speak of, but follows ghostly presence Ventura (an immigrant from Cape Verde living in Lisbon […]
DVD Review: Farewell My Concubine
★★★★☆ The aspirations of art pitted against the never-ending flux of politics. That is the underlying conflict driving Farewell My Concubine, a tale of two Peking Opera singers struggling to preserve themselves and their trade during the revolutionary turbulence of […]
Film Review: Next to Her
★★★★☆ In the opening shot of Next to Her, impatient teenagers rattle the bars of a metal gate as they wait for Chelli (Liron Ben-Shlush) – the school security guard – to let them out. But it turns out that Chelli is far […]
Film Review: Goodnight Mommy
★★★☆☆ The anticipation has been palpable for Goodnight Mommy, a rare entry in what might be termed the ‘arthouse horror’ subgenre. After all, contemporary horror, with its emphasis on gore over mystery and suspense, is not the first place cineastes […]
Film Review: Only the Dead
★★★☆☆ Michael Ware is a brave – if slightly insane – individual. That much is clear as you watch him shadow militants and run headlong into fire fights, with nothing but his camera to hand. He exudes the brand of […]