Film Review: Where’s My Roy Cohn (2019)
byHe may not be a household name, but Roy Cohn may well be one of the chief corrupting influences of American leadership since the…
Festivals
Film Review: Hero (2019)
byKicking off this year’s Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Hero is a “spy-thriller” about Russian sleeper cells all over the world awaiting instructions from a shadowy government…
Film Review: Fisherman’s Friends (2019)
byClusters of orange lichen-covered roofs, peeks of sandy beach, and ocean spreading into the distance. Gull cries mixed with the slap of waves against…
Film Review: A White, White Day (2019)
byThe title of writer-director Hlynur Palmason’s film A White, White Day, fresh from an impressive reception at Cannes, invokes an Icelandic proverb to introduce an…
Film Review: The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
byOne of my favourite things that Roger Ebert said was “movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. It speaks so…
Film Review: J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius (2019)
byWe’re living in the upside-down world. The jokers are in charge. Supporters are cults. People are living in feedback loops, their responses programmed and…
Film Review: Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017)
byWerner Herzog’s own documentaries are interested in trying to visualise the invisible, in seeing inside the mind, the soul, and exploring the depths and…
Film Review: Crime Wave (2018)
byThis is the second year in a row that the Spanish Film Festival has announced itself by previewing a Maribel Verdu-led black comedy, and…
Film Review: The Hole in the Ground (2019)
byIn the last few years horror films have developed a fascination with parental anxiety. Perhaps it’s the reality of climate change sparking fear about…
Film Review: Celebration (2007)
byTwo decades after it was filmed, Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent, Olivier Meyrou’s brilliant fly-on-the-wall documentary celebrating the last of the great couturiers of Paris, is finally…