Film Review: ‘Centurion’
★★★☆☆ Starring Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko follows a band of grizzled, war-weary Roman soldiers stationed in Britain during the year 117 AD. After an ill-fated […]
Udine Far East Film Festival 2010: CUEAFS Hong Kong Cinema Panel
Film making is undeniably as much of a political and financial venture as it is an expressive art form. In outlets such as the Udine […]
Interview: Chapman To, actor ‘La Comedie Humaine’
Saturday’s interview session at the Udine Far East Film Festival welcomed actor/producer Chapman To. The star of Infernal Affairs (2002) and producer of the new […]
DVD Releases: ‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’
Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) is the oldest man alive, granted immortality in a pact with the Mr. Nick (the demonic Tom Waits) on the understanding that when […]
Special Feature: The agenda of the rerelease
Re-edited, re-scored and re-sold. Up to now, we have seen the cinematic rerelease not only as a tool for revealing ‘never-before-seen’ footage, but conversely cutting […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
★★★★★ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Missile Defence System with the ability to hit a long-range ballistic missile out of the sky […]
DVD Releases: ‘Kes’
As a student who was fond of English at school, I would always try to abide by the rule ‘never judge a book by its […]
Udine Far East Film Festival 2010: The Films of Lee Yong-Ju
Possessed (2009) is one of the best South Korean horrors in recent years. In Lee Yong-Ju’s personal opinion this is due to the fact that […]
Udine Far East Film Festival 2010: ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’
★★★★☆ 2010 may still be in its first quarter, but it already seems certain that Echoes of the Rainbow (2010) will remain as one of the […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘I Am Love’
The opening scene of Guadagnino’s I Am Love (2009) throws the doors wide open onto the lavish lifestyle of an upper class Italian family, the […]
Udine Far East Film Festival 2010: Udine at a Glance
As the 12th Udine Far East Film Festival progresses into its eighth day, the selection of films is still impressing audiences with its quality. The broad range […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘The Ghost’
To say Roman Polanski has suffered some bad press lately would be an understatement. The 76-year-old is detained in Switzerland, waiting to hear if he’ll […]
Udine Far East Film Festival 2010: ‘Gallants’
★★★★☆ At the beginning of Gallants (2009) the opening narrator introduces the audience to the film’s protagonist Cheung (Yau-Nam Wong ), an awkward nerd of Napoleon Dynamite (2004) […]
Udine Far East Film Festival 2010: ‘Nudes! Guns! Ghosts!’ – The films of Shintoho
This year, the 12th instalment of the Udine Far East Film Festival is to screen a retrospective set of films produced by Japanese film studio Shintoho from the late 1950’s to […]
DVD Review ‘An Education’
★★★★☆ An Education (2009) is based on the memoir of British journalist Lynn Barber. In the early 1960s, aged sixteen, she was swept off her […]
Special Feature: Is ‘X2’ the greatest comic book adaptation?
I saw Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass (2010) for the second time last night and I can honestly say the film loses none of its edge on […]
DVD Review: ‘We Live in Public’
★★★★☆ If you haven’t heard of Josh Harris before, perhaps it’s time to rectify that. The timely release of Dig! (2004) director Ondi Timoner’s new documentary, […]
DVD Review: ‘Avatar’
★★★★☆ For those who caught James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) during the film’s cinematic release, this was most likely the first thought to have entered your warped minds as […]