Reviews
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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,...
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Flatpack Film Festival – Mulholland Drive – Review *****
2017 is a bumper year for fans of David Lynch. Next month sees the much anticipated return of Twin Peaks, and a new documentary profiling...
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Elsa Fraulein SS (aka Captive Women 4) – Review ***
Have you ever found yourself thinking there weren’t enough films around that combine boobies and Nazis? Well, look no further as this Patrice Rohmm classic...
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RAW – Review ****
Things are looking yummy for director Julia Ducournau. A few years after her short Junior won the Small Golden Rail at Cannes, her first feature,...
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Umberto D. – Blu-ray Review *****
How to approach an established classic like Vittorio De Sica’s 1952 Umberto D, newly released on Blu-Ray, when writing from a comfortable 21st century perspective?...
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Letters from Baghdad – Review **
Sometimes a documentary’s subject is so much more interesting than the documentary itself, than you are left in two states of mind: in one hand,...