Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
At the beginning of THE FAREWELL PARTY, Ezekiel, a resident of a Jerusalem retirement village, rings another resident on the phone from reception, claiming to be God, and telling her to keep up with her cancer therapy, not to …
It’s baffling, to say the least, that the only cinema release that A LONG WAY DOWN is going to receive in Australia is at the Emirates British Film Festival.
Baffling because it boasts such a strong cast and its source …
In THE YOUNG & PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET, the director of Delicatessen does Disney. Well, sort of, maybe.
Don’t recall anyone in a Disney film dropping the F bomb! Still THE YOUNG & PRODIGIOUS T.S.SPIVET is very much a Disney echo …
One of the highlights of this year’s Jewish International Film Festival is the short and sweet documentary DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE?
In the digital age the time honoured vocation of matchmaker has had a battering but like so many …
J K Simmons usually gives great support but in WHIPLASH he steps up to the podium with top billing as the flailing formidable force that is Fletcher, a music teacher who unflinchingly raises the tempo of tutelage by instilling terror …
In the fabulous forthcoming book WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MOVIES, published by Faber & Faber, editor David Jenkins writes, “Simon Pegg is the very definition of the kind of bloke you’d want to go down to the pub with.”
In …
The sheer force of the mountain of masculinity cops a scouring in the scathing Swedish film FORCE MAJEURE.
When a controlled avalanche looks like it’s going to wipe out a resort in a tsunami of snow, the father of a …
Before you go to sleep in your cinema chair watching BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, you might witness Nicole Kidman waking up to Colin Firth and having no memory of him being her husband or, presumably starring with him in …
Writer director Scott Frank is a detective fiction aficionado who has carved a career out of adapting the cream of contemporary American hard boiled literature.
His screenplay for Get Shorty was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Writers …
Neither silk purse nor sow’s ear, New Theatre’s production of Richard Bean’s HARVEST turns up a few entertaining truffles in this shambling, sprawling family saga.
HARVEST maps a century of struggle for the Harrisons, Yorkshire pig farmers, whose patch of …