Film Review: The Twilight Samurai (2002)
byA conversation by Nick Alexander, Scott Halligan & Joanna Di Mattia (27/5/14) Synopsis: Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada), a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without…
Festivals
SFF: Something Must Break (2014)
bySomething Must Break is youngster Saga Becker’s first appearance on film and it definitely won’t be the last. Becker plays Sebastian, a wayward youth…
Film Review: 13 Assassins (2010)
byMidway through Takeshi Miike’s 13 Assassins (2010), a man in a tavern jokes, ‘These days, swords are only good for cutting radishes.’ It might…
Film Review: The Wages of Fear (1953)
byConventional ideas about courage are blown apart in The Wages of Fear (La salaire de la peur), an existential thriller directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot…
Film Review: Seven Samurai (1954)
byEarly in Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) the wise Kambei Shimada (Takashi Shimura) explains, ‘I’m not a man with any special skills, but I’ve…
Film Review: One Chance (2013)
byThere’s no question that One Chance is a predictable film, but this comes part and parcel with the real-life narrative of Potts, whose adversities and successes have evidently made him worthy of a biopic.
Film Review: Big Ass Spider! (2013)
byFor a low-budget film about a gigantic mutant spider destroying Los Angeles, Big Ass Spider! is surprisingly decent. Why this spider exists and why it is attacking humans is never made entirely clear.
Film Review: Mystery Road (2013)
byRich, moving and intricately layered, Mystery Road is just shy of the masterpiece it could have been, but a thrilling movie experience none the less.
Film Review: The Best Offer (2013)
byA superficial scrutiny of The Best Offer might assert it to be a slightly unpalatable story of love-across the-age-divide between Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), successful antique art auctioneer with his own priceless collection of female portraits, and Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), twenty something agoraphobic orphan of life-long antique collectors.
MIFF 2013: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
byResponding to the recent economic disaster in his home country of Hungary and its effects on his film industry, director György Pálfi has made…