Film Review: Grimsby (2016)
byOffensive, low brow and crude. These are among many of the reasons to see Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest feature Grimsby. With a working class…
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Film Review: Victoria (2015)
byIt’s been said that if you come out of a film thinking about the cinematography, it probably wasn’t a very good film overall. Victoria…
Film Review: The Will to Fly (2016)
byThe Will to Fly is a wonderful documentary which this reviewer walked into without having one iota of the premise, and who quite happily walked…
Film Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
byIt 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: The Lady in the Van (2015)
byMedia has a tendency to be predictable, safe fare. For all your superhero flicks and CGI End Of World scenarios, you always know by…
AFFF 2016: Film Review: Microbe & Gasoline (2015)
byMicrobe & Gasoline is the latest feature of French auteur Michel Gondry. Pre-teenage adolescent Daniel (Ange Dargent) feels overly anxious and misplaced in life. At…
Film Review: Triple 9 (2016)
byTriple 9 is a complicated, character driven heist film filled with betrayal, enduring loyalties, bad cops, good cops, double crossings, criminals and lots of…
Film Review: Gods of Egypt (2016)
byAnother reviewer has described Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt as ‘one hot mess’, and that would seem to be a fairly accurate description. With…
Film Review: Son of Saul (2015)
byWith what would have to be one of the most astonishing debut films of all time – and horrific in a way that is…
Film Review: Theeb (2014)
byTheeb marks the beginning of two different yet equally important things. Firstly it’s the directorial debut of Naji Abu Nowar which marks him as…