Reviews

In an evening glittering with frost and freezing temperatures, the stars turned out to receive well-deserved prizes at the London Critics' Circle Awards (image courtesy of the London Critics' Circle). WINNERS FILM...

FORUM: REALISTIC AND SURREAL The 47th Berlinale Forum strand allegedly offers the most daring and challenging fare of the festival often featuring films that are ethnographic, political and experimental in nature and...

Dir: Mel Gibson | Biopic drama | US | 102min Hacksaw Ridge is one of the most violent and gory films about pacifism ever made. But there again, its director is...

Dir: Garth Davis; Cast: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose | Australia | drama | 118 min. Garth Davis co-directed the...

In Park City Utah, the SUNDANCE INSTITUTE sets the indie film agenda for 2017 with a slew of provocative new titles for this year's festival which runs from 19-29 January. These...

DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI Director: Robert Wiene Cast: Werner Krauß, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Freidrich Feher; Germany 1919, 73 min. Few films have been the object of so much secondary literature as...

Dir: Rudiger Suchsland | Doc, Germany, 119' German cinema of the Weimar Republic, the first democratic state on German soil, was innovative as well as contradictory – lasting from 1918 to...

Cinema Born of the Icy Cold is the feature of the Berlinale NATIVe 2017 strand that highlights ten features from Indigenous Films from the Arctic Circle, and nine shorts. The Sámi...

Directed by Rintaro, written by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Madhouse with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions, this science-fiction anime action is loosely based on the 1949 Metropolis manga created...