FILM REVIEW | Starred Up
Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in […]
Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in […]
★★★★ The Riot Club | The atrocious unsocial behaviour of a group of very wealthy privileged college-age offspring of England’s landed gentry whose utter contempt for the poor is matched […]
Snails In The Rain | ★★★★ Every day on his way to University, linguistics student Boaz stops at the Post Office to check his mailbox to see if there is […]
★★★ | Mood Indigo Have you ever want to like something so much, looked forward to seeing something so much, eager with anticipation? And then it happens and its, umm, well, […]
★★★★ | Bumblef**k USA Newbie filmmaker Aaron Douglas Johnson’s debut feature is an unsettling docu-drama hybrid that arose from a very personal tragedy in his life. Johnson was born in […]
★★★★ | Palo Alto The directorial debut of Gia Coppola, Palo Alto is an exploration of high school teenagers experimentations with sex, drugs, and alcohol, and it’s an impressive debut. […]
★★★★ | Tru Love When 60-year-old Alice comes to Toronto six months after becoming a widow, her daughter Suzanne a lawyer is too busy at work to be home to […]
★★★★ | The Overnighters After North Dakota introduced the controversial technology known as fracking in 2008 it suddenly became the nation’s second largest oil producing State. So as the economic […]
The opening sequence of French writer/director Yann Gonzalez debut feature starts with confusion that never really eases up through this avant-garde art-house film. ★
The lazy summer is over and Leo and his best friend Giovana are back in High School for the new term when curly headed new boy Gabriel joins the class […]
16 year old Hazel Graze is permanently attached to an oxygen tank that now keeps her alive after her most recent bouts of cancer. If knowing that her days on […]