Film Review – ‘Thelma’ (2017)
Prepare yourself for some bold and arresting imagery as you begin to dissect Joachim Trier’s ‘Thelma’. Expectations were high going...
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Watch Netflix’s Dark Trailer But Is It The ‘German Stranger Things’?
Later this month the long-awaited Stranger Things will return to Netflix which fans will be raring to see. Today Netflix...
EIFF 2017 Review – Animals (2017)
Greg Zlinksi directs and co-writes Animals (Tiere), a Polish surrealist thriller exploring the dynamic of an unhappily married couple. Whilst...
EIFF 2017 Review – Fog In August (2016)
Kai Wessel directs Fog in August (Nebel im August), a German drama that explores the full horror of the Nazis...
Bluray Review – Toni Erdmann (2016)
How could they make such a good film out of "Toni Erdmann"? The premise seems worn-out: Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek),...
Win Oscar Nominated Toni Erdmann On DVD
From acclaimed writer-director Maren Ade, TONI ERDMANN is a remarkably touching and outrageously funny portrait of an offbeat father-daughter relationship....
Film Review – Toni Erdmann (2017)
German filmmaker Maren Ade’s coming-of-age comedy Toni Erdmann is a hilarious and immensely moving portrayal of an idiosyncratic father and...
In Toni Erdmann UK Trailer Fathers Are All The Same Worldwide…Embarrassing!
It's been voted BFI's Sight & Sound Best film of 2016 and several other publications and websites also agree and...
EIFF 2016 Review – Au nom de ma fille (Kalinka)
Daniel Auteuil leads Vincent Garenq's sublime French-German legal drama which explores a father's quest for justice in the face of...
Film Review – Victoria (2016)
The most obvious thing to note about this title is that it's all one continuous shot lasting two hours and...
Blu-Ray Review – Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Ulli Lommel is fascinating figure in cinema because he is extensively a hack filmmaker. Lommel started working with Rainer Werner...
FF 2014 Review – The Samurai (2014)
The Samurai is the latest horror film to come out of Germany, and unlike it’s splatter brethren to which I...
“Kitzeln Sie meine Entenmuscheln!!!” Its A New German TV Spot For Tin Tin!
October 26th Steven Spielberg / Peter Jackson's Motion capped Adventures of Tin Tin the first feature film based on the classic Herge...
DVD Review: THE DOOR (Die Tur)
In September 2009 I posted the trailer for this movie in Cinehouse and 19months on I didn't dream that I...