Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Traditionally, Boxing Day heralds the release of the big Christmas movies.
Traditionally, a big Christmas movie is a saccharine Disney animation or a bloated CGI fantasy or a mindless, jejune gross out comedy.
THE RAILWAY MAN is none of these …
I was not among the fans of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. Surprisingly, because I have long been a fan of its director David O Russell.
It was an ok movie but not a knockout and besides Noah Baumbach had made a …
The Silver Anniversary of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival is a golden opportunity to see the latest French language films as well as reacquainting or discovering the work of two masters – Jacques Tati and Francoise Truffaut.
Screening over …
Sweeter than a Portuguese tart, THE GILDED CAGE offers early Christmas jollies in a comedy as jaunty as the run from Paris to Lisbon.
Ex pat Portuguese, Maria and Jose have been living and working in Paris for thirty years. …
When I heard that the classic Brian De Palma picture CARRIE was being remade, I wondered why and didn’t really think I’d need to see it.
What changed my mind was that Kimberly Peirce director of BOYS DON’T CRY and …
Like CARRIE, Paul Potts was bullied. Paul was picked on because he was portly and because he was more interested in opera than football and in being a singer rather than a steelworker. Paul prevailed and won a spot in …
“Shit on fire” is the favoured catchphrase of Semyon Semyonovich, the self-centred suicide in Moira Buffini’s DYING FOR IT, but on opening night it was a case of hair on fire as lead actress Jodine Muir’s follicles came far too …
Mow the grassy knoll, lock the windows of the book depository, and don’t deal with Dealey Plaza.
To commemorate the assassination of JFK check out PARKLAND on DVD.
Nonplussed that this very fine film failed to find a cinema release, …
Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing died recently. Could the adaptation of her novella, THE GRANDMOTHERS, have had anything to do with it?
Renamed ADORATION, it stars Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as a pair of yummy mummies living in an …
FILTH (R) is a high octane adaptation of Irvine Walsh’s novel of the same name.
A junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive period, until he finally meets his match… himself. Scheming Bruce Robertson, a bigoted and …