Film Review: The Divide
Today, society in much of the First World is more polarised than it has been at any time since the World War I. Indeed, as the introduction in The Divide points out, inequality in the US and UK is at its highest levels since 1928. The remarkable thing about all this is that most people …
DVD Review: Miss Hokusai
There are a lot of people who view Manga with disdain and prejudice. However, the art-form, whether it be in the medium of comic, TV show or film, is highly regarded in its native Japan. Many series make the transition to live action films and there’s almost a self-contained industry. Based on the comic Sarusuberi …
Incoming: Jane’s Got a Gun
A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him. Jane’s Got a Gun is out in cinemas on Friday.
Film Review: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Art and controversy are regular bedfellows but occasionally an artist will create such a stir that it will resonate to a far greater audience than their work attracts. Robert Mapplethorpe did this but it wasn’t until after his death that he managed to achieve such popular notoriety. In Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s documentary, Mapplethorpe: …
Incoming: Arabian Nights – The Restless One
The latest from Miguel Gomes (Tabu, Our Beloved Month of August) Arabian Nights is probably this year’s most ambitious cinematic undertaking, and the most talked about film experience of the last Cannes Film Festival. Arabian Nights uses the framing device from the original Arabian Nights of the beautiful young Scheherazade telling tale after tale in …
Film Review: Louder Than Bombs
Joachim Trier is one of the most exciting and talented Scandinavian film directors of the last decade. Louder Than Bombs is only his third feature but it follows on from the highly acclaimed Reprise and Oslo, August 31st. The former is a study on young love, ambition and depression whilst the latter is a day …
Incoming: Criminal
The story of the right man in the wrong body. In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative’s mission. Criminal is out in cinemas today.
DVD Review: Three Days of the Condor (Masters of Cinema)
Sidney Pollock was a strange American director for his time. Whilst he came through at the same time as many of the new American film-makers in the 1970s, his output and outlook were very much traditional. Unlike some of his peers including Robert Altman, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, he’s not a …
Incoming: Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot …
Incoming: Our Little Sister
Sachi, Yoshino and Chika are three sisters living happily together in a relaxed, tight-knit seaside town south of Tokyo. When their long-estranged father passes away they travel to the countryside to attend his funeral, where they meet their shy teenage half-sister, Suzu. Bonding quickly, they invite the orphaned Suzu to live with them and she …