All posts by David Poole
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Interview with Sofie Gråbøl
On the 21st August 2009, the British public first met Sarah Lund, and the dramatic landscape has never been the same since. The first season...
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Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight Teaser Online
Upon discovering his new script The Hateful Eight had leaked online, despite only handing to select personnel, a furious Quentin Tarantino vowed never to make...
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Leo DiCaprio is Scorsese’s Devil In The White City
Martin Scorsese has previous expressed Sympathy For The Devil mainly through liberal use of Rolling Stones tracks, or a with a crafty rethink of Satan...
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Zac Efron In Talks For Dwayne Johnson’s Baywatch
Zac Efron is set to run with Dwayne Johnson, probably in slow motion, in Baywatch, the big-screen remake of the 1990s TV series that did for California...
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Inside Out – Review ****
If a film could be described as “typically Pixar,” Inside Out could well be it. For twenty years the studio has surprised and delighted audiences...
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Eyewitness (Øyevitne) Season 1 – Review ****
First it was the Danes, then the Swedes, now the Norwegians are colonising the UK with their superlative television. Written and directed by Jarl Emsell...
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East End Film Festival – The Seventh Fire – Review ****
Few documentaries arrive with the pedigree of The Seventh Fire. Executive produced by Natalie Portman and presented by the legendary Terrence Malick, Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s...
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East End Film Festival – Interview with Elephant’s Dream Director Kristof Bilsen
Belgian filmmaker Kristof Bilsen’s debut feature Elephant’s Dream, a beautifully poetic, insightful documentary focusing on three government workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, receives...
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East End Film Festival – Elephant’s Dream – Review ****
“Until the lions have their own historians,” Nigerian poet Chinua Achebe said, “the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” This quote, which...
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Nordicana 2015 – The Legacy, Season 2 Episode 1 – Review ***
The Legacy returns with more feuding, deceit and secrets from a Bohemian Danish family. Twelve months on from the battle over Grønnegard, Signe (Marie Bach...