Berlin 2015 Review – Queen Of The Desert (2015)
On paper Queen of the Desert, directed by Werner Herzog, certainly looked like one of the films to watch in...
Film Reviews
Film Review – Jupiter Ascending (2015)
If nothing else, you’ve got to admire the Wachowskis’ sense of imagination. A visually striking film, Jupiter Ascending is certainly...
Film Review – Love Is Strange (2014)
George (Alfred Molina; Chocolat, Spiderman 2) and Ben (John Lithgow; Interstellar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) are a...
Film Review – Shaun The Sheep The Movie (2015)
Shaun The Sheep owes a debt to his Aardman predecessors Morph and Gromit, claymation trailblazers who elicited laughs from their audiences...
Sundance 2015 Review – Last Days In The Desert (2015)
After some great highs (Tangerine, Strangerland, I'll See You in My Dreams), my Sundance 2015 journey went out with a...
Sundance 2015 Review – Best Of Enemies (2015)
Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's documentary Best of Enemies delves into ABC's landmark Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr....
Sundance 2015 Review – Listen To Me, Marlon (2015)
Avoiding the traditional talking head structure, Stevan Riley's Listen to Me, Marlon recounts the life of Marlon Brando using the...
Sundance 2015 Review – Entertainment (2015)
Rick Alverson's Entertainment is perhaps the most bizarre film of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Melancholy, disturbing, and occasionally unwatchable...
Sundance 2015 Review – Lila & Eve (2015)
Another feature tackling parental grief at this year's Sundance Film Festival is the Lifetime produced Lila & Eve starring Viola...
Sundance 2015 Review – Strangerland (2015)
Kim Farrant's debut feature Strangerland is a bleak and evocative look at the personal breakdown of the parents of missing...
Sundance 2015 Review – Digging for Fire (2015)
Hooking us in with a murder-mystery themed premise, Digging for Fire revels in writer-director Joe Swanberg's typical themes concerning marriage,...
Sundance 2015 Review – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloekner, writer-director Marienne Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl feels like an...
Sundance 2015 Review – Eden (2014)
Mia Hansen-Løve's love letter to nineties house music, Eden, has an undeniably astounding soundtrack and a stirring message about the...
Sundance 2015 Review – Tangerine (2015)
Feeling like a contemporary trash epic in the vein of the work of John Waters and Andy Warhol, Tangerine unfolds...