Reviews
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Destination Unknown – Review ***
There’s many a documentary depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. As one of the most horrific tragedies in history, the systematic genocide of Europe’s Jewish...
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I Am Not Madame Bovary – Review ****
The first thing that must be understood about I Am Not Madame Bovary – the curious new dark comedy from Chinese blockbuster director Feng Xiaogang...
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Flatpack Film Festival – The Red Turtle- Review ****
When news broke that Studio Ghibli, Japan’s and perhaps the world’s preeminent animation house was to close its doors, animation fans were devastated. Happily news of their demise were...
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Eyes of Fire – Review ****
We tend to look back at horror in the 1980’s with a certain sense of fondness, disgust and incredulity. The state of the genre was...
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Lady Macbeth – Review *****
Costume dramas have this reputation for being very proper, restrained affairs that usually deal with the same handful of themes over and over again. No...
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Crimson – Review *
Being a Eurotrash film enthusiast must be hard work, comparable to the tribulations of the men and women who travelled west during the gold rush...
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REAL BOY – Review ****
“I am literally a boy with the wrong body parts”, says protagonist Bennett at some point, trying exasperatedly to explain to his mother why he...
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The Lost City of Z – Review ****
There used to be a quite popular film genre focused on larger-than-life hero-men, often dropped in exotic locales, overcoming odds on an epic scale through...
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The Fate of the Furious – Review ***
How has it come to this? Many franchises manage to overstay their welcome by the time they hit the third movie but following a clever...
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THE HANDMAIDEN – Review *****
There were those who thought the erotic thriller was on its way out, but boy, were they wrong. From the best world cinema – Korean,...