Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Nominated for Best Cinematography in this year’s Oscar competition, this single nod for EMPIRE OF LIGHT marks cinematographer Roger Deakins’ fifteenth nomination. If he wins it will be his third, the second for a film directed by Sam Mendes.
An …
A dark horse in the Best Performance by an Actor In a Lead Role category at this year’s Oscars is Paul Mescal for his performance in the unassuming charmer, AFTERSUN.
Nothing very much seems to happen in this story of …
A detective thriller like no other, OLD GOD’S TIME surely is a book written for the reason we read.
A haunting narrative, lyrical and disturbing, horrendous and hilarious, a mesmeric tale of memory and menace, a jagged world of revenge, …
Joining such celebrated cinematic bruins as Winnie The Pooh, Ted and Paddington, comes COCAINE BEAR, a rollicking outdoorser that’s a doozey.
Hilarity and horror hurl out of hibernation with this nifty ninety minuter about a cocaine fuelled critter causing hilarious …
Ten years have passed since Sarah Polley’s last feature length movie, Stories We Tell.
With her new film, WOMEN TALKING, the decade wait has been more than worth it.
Nominated for a brace of Oscars, Best Film and Best Adapted …
LIAISON is that rarity. An intelligent film about intelligence agencies, and the vanities that blight the abuse of that intelligence.
Eva Green and Vincent Cassel head an awesome cast in a cat and mouse internecine thriller that tracks from the …
New Theatre has kicked another goal with their latest production, JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS.
Written by Tom Wells and directed by Alice Livingstone, JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS is a soft booted comedy about football, friendship and fumbling your way through life.
Set …
Like last year’s wonderful HERE OUT WEST, WE ARE STILL HERE is a film collage that interweaves eight powerful tales, written and directed by Indigenous filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the Pacific to tell a sweeping story of …
A sort of antidote to TAR, where the conductor was demonised, KNOWING THE SCORE tends to canonise Saint Simone with no scores to settle.
Directed by Janine Hosking who made the outstanding THE EULOGY, the feature documentary on Geoffrey Tozer, …
Delightful seems a strange word to begin a review about a book about the dark art of espionage, but Alexander McCall Smith’s splendid THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SPIES is just that. Delightful.
Imagine Buchan or Ambler as written by Wodehouse …