FILM REVIEW | Map To The Stars
Maps to the Stars can be described as a take-off on Hollywood and celebrity and the people who inhabit this world, and boy what a world it is. It’s a […]
FILM REVIEW | Ida
★★★★★ | Ida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXhCaVqB0x0 It’s hard to decide exactly what period this new cinematic masterpiece from Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski is set in with its austere dramatic settings that look […]
FILM REVIEW | Reaching For The Moon
★★★★★ Reaching For The Moon | Elizabeth Bishop was something of a self-absorbed cold fish. When she finished her tenure as US Poet Laureate in 1950, she was 40 years […]
FILM REVIEW | Wish I Was Here
★★ | Wish I Was Here Aiden is evidently a very lousy actor. He’s so bad that even though he lives in LA he hasn’t managed to score even a bit-part […]
FILM REVIEW | The Perfect Wedding
★★★ | The Perfect Wedding Paul used to be a drunk. He also used to be Roy’s boyfriend. Two years later and both men have moved on with their separate […]
FILM REVIEW | Wakolda
★★★★ | Wakolda In the opening scenes of this historical drama we see a distinguished looking German gentleman accosting a travelling family of five to ask if he may follow […]
FILM REVIEW | A Most Wanted Man
★★★★★ | A Most Wanted Man In Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s take on John le Carré’s spy thriller we are very much aware of who ‘the most wanted man’ is, but […]
FILM REVIEW | I’m A Porn Star
Filmmaker Charlie David‘s light-hearted rambling review of the burgeoning gay pornography industry could never be mistaken as a serious piece of investigative journalism. After speedily racing through the whole history […]
FILM REVIEW | Ballet Boys
Ballet Boys is a feature length documentary that follows in the footsteps of three adolescent male dancers as they are about to graduate from the Norwegian Ballet Academy and move […]
FILM REVIEW | Magic In The Moonlight
★★ | Magic In The Moonlight Within a few minutes after the opening of this movie… Woody Allen’s 46th, and probably one of his most tedious … it is very […]
FILM REVIEW | Obvious Child
★★★★★ | Obvious Child The movie opens with a very confident Donna in the middle of her stand-up comedy routine in a small nondescript bar in New York. She is […]