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 | Rosewater
This rather tense drama opens with Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari been awoken by Investigators in his mother’s house in Tehran and subsequently hauled off to jail. Then in a flashback, […]
FILM REVIEW | 54, The Director’s Cut
★★★★★ | 54, The Director’s Cut The movie opens with a very hunky bare-chested young man in a New York street late at night trying to cover up and keep […]
FILM REVIEW | Selma: US History With Passion And Brilliance
★★★★★ Selma | This extraordinary wonderful new film that finally brings Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King centre stage in a Hollywood movie focuses on just one of the […]
FILM REVIEW | American Sniper
★★★★ | American Sniper Add American Sniper to the list of good Clint Eastwood movies. While it’s not his best film ever (see Unforgiven and J. Edgar) nor his worst […]
FILM REVIEW | Erebus: Into The Unknown
★★★★ | Erebus: Into The Unknown In 1979 257 people perished in an Air New Zealand flight in which an aircraft slammed into Mount Erebus in Antarctic, becoming one of […]
FILM REVIEW | Big Eyes, A Radical Departure For Burton
★★★ | Big Eyes In a rather radical departure from his last few very edgy movies acclaimed director Tim Burton has opted to make a biopic about Walter Keane the […]
FILM REVIEW | Wild, Witherspoon Shines With Talent
★★★★★ | Wild After her cancer-ridden mother died just aged 45, Cheryl Strayed fell to pieces. Heavily in debt and with her marriage disintegrating she developed an obsession for sleeping […]
FILM REVIEW | Foxcatcher
★★★★ | Foxcatcher John Eleuthère du Pont the spoilt heir to the vast Dupont chemical fortune was a dangerous paranoid psychopath who ended up destroying lives when he didn’t get […]
FILM REVIEW | CitizenFour
★★★★★ | CitizenFour After you have watched Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary on the NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden you will never want to use your bank debit card, mobile phone or […]
FILM REVIEW | Mr. Turner
★★★★★ | Mr. Turner Mike Leigh’s stunning biopic of J.M.W.Turner is the portrait of the leading English Romantic landscape artist who was evidently also quite a philanderer and misanthrope too. […]