Film Review: Ida
When colour replaced black and white as the universal celluloid medium it began a slow demise of a certain artistry of cinematography. There’s something about the use of light and…
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DVD Review: Norte: The End of History
There have been some mammoth films throughout the course of cinema history. Resan clocks in at 873 minutes whilst How Yukong Moved the Mountains and Out 1 have runtimes of…
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Film Review: The Last Impresario
The cult of celebrity is a fairly new aberration. The name Michael White is unlikely to mean anything to you but at one time he was one of the most…
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DVD Review: American Interior
Gruff Rhys is one of a small number of artists who combine being talented musicians with a genuinely interesting and eccentric personality. The former lead singer of Super Furry Animals…
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DVD Review: Brute Force
The Great Depression was a time of mass poverty and unemployment in America. Growing up in New York, and after taking part in local theatre groups and circus acts, a…
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DVD Reviews: Anne and Muriel & A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
Whilst many of Truffaut’s works are well-known, others have faded from memory over the passing of time. Artificial Eye, starting with his first film 400 Blows, are releasing a whole…
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Incoming: A Most Wanted Man
When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest:…
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DVD Review: A Jester’s Tale
Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker and master animator. He’s most famous for directing pictures which mixed live-action fantasy with beautiful animation. I was lucky enough to visit a…
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DVD Review: A Birder’s Guide to Everything
Coming of age films arrive in many different shapes and sizes. The most successful ones tend to be those that don’t obviously play-up the traumas of the teenage years. Instead,…
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Film Festival Preview: Celluloid Screams
Celluloid Screams, the Sheffield horror film festival, is back for another year. Taking place at the Showroom Cinema over the weekend of 24-26th October, it’s safe to say that the…
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