FILM REVIEW | Boy Meets Girl
★★★★★ | Boy Meets Girl Eric Schaeffer’s refreshing and enchanting drama about three 20 year-olds looking for love in a small backwater town in Kentucky gently challenges us to suspend […]
FILM REVIEW | The Invisible Men
★★★★★ | The Invisible Men Louie is a 32-year-old Palestinian who tries to live his life unobtrusively hidden away from society’s prying eyes. He has no legal right to live […]
FILM REVIEW | Testament of Youth
★★★★★ | Testament of Youth This is one of those titles you may know, you’ve seen it somewhere or have heard of the author, Vera Brittain… it rings bells. But […]
FILM REVIEW | Meet The Fokkens
69-year-old identical Dutch twins Martine and Louise Fokken give a new meaning to the word sexagenarian. Both of them have been working as prostitutes in Amsterdam’s red light district for […]
FILM REVIEW | A Most Violent Year
★★★★★ | A Most Violent Year Ok, a film that’s set in 1980 (my era) and stars Oscar Isaac (W.E. and Inside Llewyn Davis) and Jessica Chasten (Interstellar and Zero […]
FILM REVIEW | Italy
★★★★★ | Love It or Leave It. In 2009 I remembered being totally enamored with an irrepressible young Italian gay couple that documented the struggle of acceptance of gay rights […]
FILM REVIEW | Private Romeo
★★★★★ | Private Romeo Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an exercise and they […]
FILM REVIEW | Futuro Beach
★★★★★ | Futuro Beach Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motor bikers racing across the sand […]
FILM REVIEW | Beyond The Walls
★★★★★ | Beyond The Walls This unexpected and rather remarkable film from first-time writer/director David Lambert realistically scrutinises the intimate details of the rise and fall of an edgy gay […]
FILM REVIEW | Wild Tales
★★★★★ | Wild Tales Pretty model Isabel is on a business trip and strikes up a conversation with a gentleman the other side of the aisle of the plane. They […]
FILM REVIEW | Brotherhood
★★★★★ | Brotherhood Lars is a young Danish soldier who is resentful because he has been thrown out of the Army after being accused of making a pass at some […]