52 Cinematic Views of Britain: 1. I, Daniel Blake (Director: Ken Loach)
A wake up call for the world: that is how one writer described the vote for Brexit, the United Kingdoms decision to leave the Euro…
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52 Films Directed By Women: 60. A UNITED KINGDOM (Director: Amma Asante)
The final film in my review of fifty-two (well, sixty) films directed by women is A United Kingdom, director Amma Asantes follow-u…
52 Films Directed By Women: 59. BRIDGET JONES’S BABY (Director: Sharon Maguire)
The Bridget Jones trilogy (Diary, Edge, Baby) is the only franchise to be directed by a woman. A woman director can set up a franc…
Trials and Tribulations in Toronto
For the first time in twenty-two years, I returned to Toronto to attend the much vaunted Toronto International Film Festival. I ex…
52 Films Directed By Women: 58. EQUITY (Director: Meera Menon)
Equity, a drama about the launch of an IPO (initial public offering) of a tech company, could be the most radical film of the 52 f…
52 Films Directed By Women: 57.TONI ERDMANN (Director: Maren Ade)
There are those who believe that the Palme DOr at this years Cannes Film Festival should have been given to Toni Erdmann, a two ho…
D Movies Brazilian Movie Club: Screening 4: Neighbouring Sounds (2012, dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho)
The website D Movies - formerly Dirty Movies but I think people got the wrong idea - has collaborated with the cultural section of…
Film Review: JASON BOURNE (Dir. Paul Greengrass) – forget the action, his travel documents are out of date
Still courtesy of Universal Pictures The film that Jason Bourne most reminds me of is Bill Forsyths belated sequel Gregorys Two Gi…
The perfect movie poster
When I was a young lad and had all my own teeth as opposed to someone elses teeth which is a very odd acquisition I used to coll…
52 Films Directed By Women: 56. CHEVALIER (Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Characters (left to right):Christos (Sakis Rouvas), the doctor (Yiorgis Kendros),Yannis (Yorgos Pirpassopoulos),Josef Nikolaou (Va…
