DVD Review: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’
★★★☆☆ Alain Resnais has forged a hugely successful career that has had, running through it, an exploration of memory and the past. Having lost...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino’s terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.
★★☆☆☆ Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★☆☆☆ Maïwenn’s French period drama Jeanne du Barry is the perfect opening salvo for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its vacuous politics drowned out by the thunderous sound of it slapping its own back.
★★★☆☆ Alain Resnais has forged a hugely successful career that has had, running through it, an exploration of memory and the past. Having lost...
★★☆☆☆ Arriving on DVD after a brief run in the capital at the end of last year, Partners in Crime (2012) is the third...
★★★★★ When Truman Capote published true crime novel In Cold Blood, his legacy was set as the patron precursor of the non-fiction novel. Last...
★☆☆☆☆ Over seven decades since he first began making his name with the kind of fun, Z-grade schlock this film falls way short in...
★★☆☆☆ Over the last few years Norwegian author Jo Nesbø has shot to fame on the back of a series of successful crime novels...
★★★☆☆ Following her most notable directorial effort – the Academy Award-nominated Away From Her (2006) – Canadian actress turned filmmaker Sarah Polley follows suit...
★★★★☆ The Rolling Stones – messianic anti-moss-gatherers or piratical pariahs – how best should they be remembered? American director Brett Morgen (highly regarded for...
★★★★☆ It seems almost impossible to talk about Julian Jarrold’s BBC/HBO drama The Girl (2012) without mentioning Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock (2012) – starring Anthony...