Film Review: A Man Called Ove (2015)
bySwedish cinema can lay claim to giving the cinematic world more than its fair share of great drama. Think of Ingmar Bergman giving us the…
Swedish cinema can lay claim to giving the cinematic world more than its fair share of great drama. Think of Ingmar Bergman giving us the…
For such a poignant topic, it seems cheap to employ a pun to describe a film called Loving, yet that is the word that first…
After making what many consider to be the best film of 2011 with his masterpiece A Separation and competing for the Palme d’Or with…
The current fascination with American race relations continues like never before in Oscar season 2017. The pallid white-fest of the previous years climaxed famously…
“Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in” – August Wilson, Fences. Boundaries, borders, divisions, and…
Denis Villeneuve is one of the most talented and exciting directors in contemporary cinema. In Prisoners he portrays vengeful parental anguish with a palpably…
Toni Erdmann may be the funniest film to hit cinemas in a long time. Its 162-minute runtime is peppered with inappropriate, kinetic jokes and…
Few filmmakers have had such a strong and profound effect on contemporary cinema in the span of just three feature films as writer, director,…
To summarise Moonlight in one word – visceral. It would also be accurate to describe it as a gay black love story. Yet that…
Many will be familiar with Saroo Brierley’s story, having previously been covered some years back by 60 Minutes. Now it gets the big screen treatment in…