Film Review: METRO MANILA – the art of making a thriller in the developing world
Sean Ellis (CASHBACK, THE BROKEN) is the latest British director to shoot a low-budget thriller in South East Asia and make his na…
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Film Review: Francesca Gregorini’s EMANUEL AND THE TRUTH ABOUT FISHES – dodgy title, moving film
EMANUEL AND THE TRUTH ABOUT FISHES sounds like it could about something religious. It is actually a bold, emotionally involving an…
Film Review: Lynn Shelton’s TOUCHY FEELY – alas, it does not touch the audience
I had high hopes for TOUCHY FEELY, Lynn Sheltons follow-up to YOUR SISTERS SISTER, which premiered at Sundance London (Cineworld O…
2013 UK Summer of Cinema – not so bummer summer
On 23 April, St. Georges Day, an assortment of online film reviewers the great unpaid turned up at Somerset House in the Aldwych…
Evil Dead – feeble dead, I think
There are a lot of folks out there who ask why remake EVIL DEAD? However, as a Twitter topic, it pales beside could the FBI have p…
The Look of Love – The look of boredom, more like!
THE LOOK OF LOVE plunges its audience back into the world of pubs where you could smoke, gentlemans clubs, top shelf magazines. I …
Me and You (Io E Te) – Me recommend it, you see it
ME AND YOU (IO E TE) is the first film in nine years from Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, best known for THE CONFORMIST, LAS…
Olympus is Crestfallen
You are a major star and your agent brings you a script, OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, about …
Oblivion – what are you blathering about?
If you were truly cynical, and perhaps a bit nutty, you would think that North Korea had timed its threats against South Korea and…
The Paperboy – bathroom habits in a hot climate
In THE PAPERBOY, addressing three concerned sunbathers hovering over the reddened body of Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman utters one of t…
