Review: The Last Man on the Moon
It is a credit to the charisma of Eugene Cernan – the titular last man on the moon – that his personality eclipses our final frontier. The...
Read MoreReview: Akira Kurosawa’s Ran 4K Restoration
Ran was the first Akira Kurosawa film this critic ever saw. Buying a 576p DVD copy from a car-boot sale, I went home and watched it on my...
Read MoreReview: Eye In The Sky – “A wonderful film about an important issue”
Every once in a while a perfect thriller comes along. A perfect thriller isn’t necessarily a masterpiece that will change your life, or...
Read MoreReview: A Warrior’s Tail
In A Warrior’s Tail (Russian: Savva. Serdtse voin), the new fantasy adventure from Russian animation studio Gluk’oza Animation, the...
Read MoreReview: Pandorica
If a film opens to a crawl that reads, “A long time ago…” what is one inevitably going to think? That’s right. Star Wars. Except,...
Read MoreReview – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
Whereas the monumentally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001) was a drama primarily and wuxia (it’s pronounced wu-shia, not...
Read MoreReview: Exposed – “Unsettling revelations, striking visuals”
The experience of viewing Exposed (formerly titled, and much more interestingly so, ‘Daughter of God’) felt like witnessing the first cut...
Read MoreReview: Bone Tomahawk – “A muscular, unpredictable and bloody western”
“You’re pretty angry for a guy named Buddy.” Following Slow West, The Hateful Eight and The Revenant, the deceased genre of the western...
Read MoreReview: Youth – “A feast for the cinematic senses”
Art’s role in life, life’s role in art, age’s forced reflection on the two and its own role in both – this is what Youth concerns itself...
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