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Toronto 2017: Our Festival Highlights
The world premiere of tennis drama Borg vs McEnroe will kick off the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival (7-17 September), beginning a ten-day celebration of the upcoming award season’s main contenders, as well as an array of innovative and experimental offerings.Premiering later today, Dominic Cook’s feature debut On Chesil Beach stars Saoirse Ronan and Billy…
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Film Review: The Work
★★★★☆ Breaking literal and figurative barriers of freedom, and opening new channels for self-awareness and enlightenment, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous’ The Work is a rousing, arresting and ultimately cathartic call-to-arms for the power and value of rehabilitation.Filmed over four exhausting, emotionally-devastating days, this documentary goes inside the walls of California’s Folsom State Prison and…
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Film Review: Wind River
★★★☆☆ With the first-rate scripts of Sicario and Hell or High Water already under his belt, American actor and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan once again levels his pen at a great social injustice of the Land of the Free with his auspicious sophomore feature Wind River.Bleak portrayals of the War on Drugs and the desperate measures…
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Film Review: The Lure
★★☆☆☆ Filmmaker Tomas Leach offers up his sophomore feature The Lure, a sombre-toned study of an eccentric millionaire who hides $3 million of gold in the Rocky Mountains, luring thousands of fortune-seekers out on a wild goose chase in search of riches and redemption.Seven years ago, former art dealer Forrest Fenn decided to hide $3…
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Film Review: It
★★★☆☆ Argentinian director Andres Muschietti – the man behind the functional, passable Mama – takes the reigns on this new adaptation of Stephen King’s cult novel It, a horror about a clown who terrorises the young population of a small fictional town in Maine.In the middle of a downpour, Bill (Jaeden Lieberher) let’s his brother…
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Film Review: Insyriated
★★★☆☆ If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to run a household in the midst of a civil war, look no further than Insyriated. Philippe Van Leeuw’s Berlin Audience Award winner is a gruelling if slightly underdeveloped portrayal of daily reality for millions of Syrian families.Watching a film set during an ongoing conflict like Insyriated,…
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Film Review: Sweet Country
★★★★☆ In UK cinemas this week, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country is an Outback western as harsh and beautiful as the land it describes. Hamilton Morris plays the man on the run and Bryan Brown is the police sergeant who must hunt him down. When Sam (Morris) shoots Harry March (Ewan Leslie), he knows he’s in…
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Film Review: Mektoub, My Love
★★★☆☆ Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love finally arrives in UK cinemas this week, over a year after its Venice premiere back in 2017. It’s a beautiful, sun-kissed film – as warm as August and almost as long. “I have all the time in the world,” says Amin (Shaïn Boumedine), the protagonist…
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Venice 2017: Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond review
★★★☆☆ Showing Out of Competition at Venice, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond goes behind the scenes on the shooting of Miloš Forman’s Man on the Moon, and reveals how Jim Carrey’s portrayal of Andy Kaufman was partly a tribute to the subject and partly flat-out insanity.Kaufman was as much a performance artist as a…
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The Avengers’ Infinity Stones explained
The culmination of a storyline that has been going on since the first Iron Man back in 2008, Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and 2 will be spectacular. The hype is already going strong as we have seen the storyline being hinted in post-credit stings.It’s all going to be about the infinity stones and the…
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