Film Review: PIONEER: The diving bell and the not-so-nutty guy
How does Norway have the highest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of any developed nation, currently USD 99,557 in comparison with USD…
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Film Review: CALVARY: Clerical error, gripping drama
Great actors allow you to read their thoughts in a close up. Brendan Gleeson is one such. In the opening seconds of CALVARY, we se…
Film Review: NOAH: Not exactly a wash out, but a little ark-some
Hoping to hang around in multiplexes for forty days and forty nights is NOAH, director Darren Aronofskys re-imagining of the Old T…
Film Review: THE PAST: Misleading title, absorbing domestic drama
A SEPARATION, Iranian writer-director Ashgar Farhadis tale of a man struggling to cope with his wife leaving him, fighting to get …
Theatre at the Cinema: PRIVATE LIVES and the joys of performance
The phenomenon of beaming live events to cinemas is now well established, though there is no truth to the rumour that the X-Factor…
Film Review: THE MACHINE: Welsh sci-fi, it’s a bit crap
The recent remake of ROBOCOP started with a redundant Samuel L. Jackson can you tell me how his character, a right-wing pro-milit…
Film Review: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM – The view from the back
I have to confess that I come from a musical family well, surely you have heard of OLIVER, got to pick a pocket or two and all th…
Film Review: FRANK: If you must see one film about a Papier Mache head this year...
In FRANK, Michael Fassbender is completely unrecognisable, buried under a Papier Mache head. It seems like a perverse thing to do …
British cinema and the French connection
What do INTIMACY, 71 and A LONG WAY DOWN all have in common? They are all British films directed by a Frenchman. Having taken Fran…
MUPPETS MOST WANTED – A Protest from the Puppets Union
Do puppets have rights? This is not the first question I asked myself after I saw MUPPETS MOST WANTED that would be wheres the ba…
