FILM REVIEW | Any Day Now
★★★★★ | Any Day Now So, here’s the thing, I can be an old, hard cynical fart when I want to be – but occasionally, just occasionally along comes something […]
FILM REVIEW | Lilting
★★★★★ | Lilting Lilting is a gently moving piece about bereavement, grief and colliding cultures, beautifully scripted and played and directed with a sure hand by Hong Khaou. The way […]
FILM REVIEW | The StandBys
There cannot possibly be any other job in show (or any other) business where you need the patience of a Saint, be as tough old nails, and as resilient as […]
FILM REVIEW | Kill Your Darlings
★★★★ | Kill Your Darlings The cinematic fascination with The Beat Generation continues regardless, following on the heals of Walter Salles’ take on Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’, which the […]
FILM REVIEW | Floating Skyscapers
★★★★★ | Floating Skyscapers Polish writer/director Tomascz Wasilewski’s second feature film is a dark tragic love story that you immediately sense from the opening scenes that is doomed. Although it […]
FILM REVIEW | Floating Skycrapers
Polish writer/director Tomascz Wasilewski’s second feature film is a dark tragic love story that you immediately sense from the opening scenes that is doomed. ★★★★★ Although it is Poland’s first ever […]
FILM REVIEW | Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s latest extravagant cornucopia of cinematic delight is a visual overload that as it’s multi-layers are unpeeled, bombards one with such glorious minute detail at a frenetic pace one […]
FILM REVIEW | In Bloom
★★★★ | In Bloom This is the rather gritty story of a hip very young gay couple in Chicago’s ‘Boystown’ coming to terms with how tough one’s first love can […]
FILM REVIEW | Stranger By The Lake
★★★★ | Stranger By The Lake Alain Guiraudie’s intriguing new thriller is about as homoerotic as can be without crossing the divide into soft porn. It’s set on a tranquil […]
FILM REVIEW | A Most Violent Year, Playing it straight can work – Sometimes
Abel Morales wants to pursue the ‘American dream’ the right way. However, his pushy wife Anna thinks otherwise. She is the daughter of the Brooklyn mobster who sold his small […]
FILM REVIEW | Dallas Buyers Club
★★★★★ | DALLAS BUYERS CLUB The very scary fact thing about watching Dallas Buyers Club is always knowing that this is sadly a very true story. Not that we have […]