EIFF 2014 – Medeas (2013)
Andrea Pallaoro's powerful study of a family faced with geographical and psychological isolation, Medeas, hits the Edinburgh International Film Festival...
Film Reviews
Film Review – Chinese Puzzle (2013)
“Wendy (Kelly Reilly) moves to New York, and Xavier (Romain Duris), her ex-husband, follows her to see their two children....
EIFF 2014 Review – Let Us Prey (2013)
Despite a promising opening and some interesting thematic concepts, Scottish horror Let Us Prey quickly goes off the rails veering...
EIFF Review – Palo Alto (2013)
James Franco's short story anthology gets streamlined for the big-screen with Gia Coppola (Granddaughter to Francis Ford and niece to...
Masters Of Cinema Blu-ray Review – Nashville (1975)
Nashville remains one of the key American films of the 1970s with Robert Altman at the pinnacle of his greatness....
DVD Review – The Pretty One (2013)
“When eccentric and insecure young woman (Kazan) is mistaken for her identical twin, after a traumatic car accident, she seizes...
Film Review – Oculus (2013)
Imagine, if you will, a cross between The Amityville Horror and that haunted mirror segment from Dead of Night. If...
Film Review – Belle (2013)
No one does period, factual film, better than Britain - often deriving it from a rich and frequently troubled history....
Blu-ray Review – Robocop (2014)
As with any remake of a much-loved film, there is a lot of trepidation about the re-imagining/remake of Robocop. Unlike...
DVD Review – Lone Survivor (2013)
Based on the book of the same name, Lone Survivor chronicles the true story of Marcus Lutrell (Mark Wahlberg) and...
DVD Review – Delivery Man (2013)
“Delivery driver David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) has a life no one would envy and it gets a whole lot worse...
Blu-ray Review – Dallas Buyers Club(2013)
Dallas Buyers Club follows the real life story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), an unreconstructed good ole boy who’s fast...
Film Review – Maleficent (2014)
You have to hand it to Disney. As a studio who can reinvent and put a new twist on old...
Film Review – A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014)
The parting shot of Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, a distant Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder being driven off into the...