Film Review: A Bigger Splash (2015)
A Bigger Splash, directed by Luca Guadagnino (best known for recently directing I Am Love), opens with a couple spending an idyllic summer on the…
AFFFF 2016 Film Review: Dheepan (2015)
Up against (amongst others) Carol and Son of Saul, Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard, surprised some by winning the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes…
Film Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
It has been a while since co-directors and co-writers Joel and Ethan Coen have made a straight up comedy – eight years in fact,…
Film Review: Tangerine (2015)
Technology has progressed so quickly that people can now starting shooting films on iPhones. Like Tangerine. But it is not just ‘a’ film, but…
Film Review: The End of the Tour (2015)
In 1996 Infinite Jest was released. A sprawling, postmodern epic, it is almost 1000 pages long and boasts 388 accompanying footnotes, and has become…
Film Review: Creed (2015)
After six Rocky films one would expect there to be some fatigue, even a little indifference, at the prospect of yet another film. However,…
Film Review: Snowpiercer (2013)
Part action-thriller, part environmentalist critique, part political commentary: Snowpiercer is a rarity. It offers both exhilarating entertainment and intriguing ideas – and is all…
Film Review: Sicario (2015)
Sicario (Spanish for ‘hitman’) is another slow-burn, tension-filled thriller for director Denis Villeneuve. Following in the footsteps of the simmering, morally ambivalent Prisoners, the…
Film Review: Carol (2015)
Carol, directed by Todd Haynes, is a sumptuous reverie. Adapted by Phyllis Nagy from the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, the…
Film Review: The Revenant (2015)
With The Revenant no one can accuse director Alejandro G. Iñárritu of resting on his laurels. After the technically audacious Birdman, Iñárritu channels his…