Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Set in the first few years of Fuehrer Adolph’s ascension in the Fatherland, ADDRESS UNKNOWN chronicles the friendship between two business partners in a successful San Francisco art gallery. Martin Schulse, a German-born Aryan, has returned to Germany with his
Shakespeare’s big, boofy, bovver boy, CORIOLANUS(MA) gets a big screen workout in Ralph Fiennes’s fine film which he both directs and takes the lead role.
Balkanising without bowdlerising the bard, Fiennes has made a remarkably contemporary movie that illustrates the
A couple of geriatrics garnered gongs in this year’s Academy Awards – octogenarian actor Christopher Plummer and septuagenarian writer Woody Allen.
Septuagenarian filmmaker Roman Polanski’s latest picture CARNAGE (M) shows these two codgers are not alone in bringing to the
The insidious and malevolent world of cults comes under the microscope in MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (MA) a stupendous feature film directorial debut by writer director, Sean Durkin.
Four names, one person ads up to a multi layered performance by
THIS MEANS WAR (M) is unabashed drivel from go to woe with heavy emphasis on the WOE! Pity somebody didn’t call Whoa on this pinnacle of jejune.
THIS MEANS WAR quickly becomes THIS MEANS YAWN with a pedestrian action sequence
Totally unforgettable as I remember, BEST WE FORGET at The Old Fitzroy.
According to one of the play’s characters, I am meant to only remember 35% of what I saw.
I do remember this: walking in to the space to
It appears that Oscar knows no SHAME. It has shunned this intriguingly beautiful yet confronting film. When the star from Hunger teams with the lead from An Education, you get SHAME. Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan play brother and sister
Young Adult is the gleaming reteaming of the creators of JUNO.
Writer Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for JUNO, has been overlooked by the Academy this time, even though this screenplay is just as sharp, astute, funny and sad
J.EDGAR (M) is Clint Eastwood’s latest biopic. He sort of did it with Nelson Mandella a few years ago with INVICTUS, and most certainly did with Charlie Parker in BIRD.
Declining to call it HOOVER in case punters thought it
Tinkering with a literary masterpiece and a well loved television miniseries may seem to be cinematic suicide but the big screen adaptation of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (M) is a triumph.
Tailored from a sterling script by Bridget O’ Connor