Film Review: New World (2013)
byNew World, the latest crime thriller to come from Asia – which has quickly become a genre all of its own – maintains the…
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Film Review: The Past (2013)
byAsghar Farhadi’s highly anticipated follow up to 2011’s A Separation is another portrait of complex family life, this time in Paris. Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa)…
Film Review: Lone Survivor (2013)
byThere have been many films about soldiers and war, but few quite as brutally visceral and arduous as Lone Survivor, directed and with a…
Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
bySteve McQueen really does have a thing for the embattled and imprisoned protagonist. His three feature films to date have focused on an Irish republican leading a hunger strike in Hunger, a sex-addict slipping deeper into the despair of his compulsion in Shame, and now the agonising capture and slavery of freeman Solomon Northrop in 12 Years a Slave.
Film Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
byGreed, power games, drugs and New York financial corruption in the 80s. No this is not Wall Street, but simply another Scorsese take on…
Film Review: The Wind Rises (2013)
byThe Wind Rises, written and directed by renowned Japanese animated film director Hazao Miyazaki, will be his final film. Known for creating colourful, vivid…
Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
byIndeed, some patience would have been nice. The initial set-up in Adam Cozad and David Koepp’s screenplay is so rushed in getting to the point that the characters miss an opportunity to be fleshed out. However, in fairness, it’s a slick, rollicking popcorn movie with a far-fetched plot and a nice sense of humour, so probably best not to take it too seriously.
Film Review: 47 Ronin (2013)
bySet in Edo era Japan, 47 Ronin follows a band of disgraced samurai who have been stripped of their rank following the death of…
Film Review: Her (2013)
bySet in the not-so-distant future, Her takes place in a world where technology has come so far that operating systems have been programmed intuitively and provide services resembling human interactions and relationships.
Film Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
byThis is truly virtuoso, expertly crafted film making, the only problem is that it’s just a little soulless, and just a little soullessness is a fairly big problem if it stops you caring about the characters. The Brothers, as usual, are more interested in the world they’re creating – and it’s impeccably done – but they forget to make us care about the people that populate it. Offering little resolution does little for them either.