Reviews

Director: Juan Schnitman Cast: Juan Barberini, Pilar Gamboa 89min   Drama   Argentina Juan Schnitman’s promising debut explores the mounting tension of a dynamite day in the lives of a  young Buenos Aires...

Dir.: Remy Bennett, Emilie Richard-Froozan Cast: Remy Bennett, Evan Louison, Mallory June, Pauly Lingerfelt USA/UK 2014, 96 min. It is always tempting to try and follow in the footsteps of your favourite directors...

Dir.: Matthew Heineman Documentary, USA/Mexico; 98 min. Matthew Heineman's second feature documentary is certainly a change in topic from his health care documentary Escape Fire: CARTEL LAND is as violent as...

2015 is set to be a knock out year as VENICE FILM FESTIVAL claims its position as the oldest major international film festival, now celebrating its 72nd edition and championing...

Director: Jafar Panahi Cast Kambozia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi 106min Drama Both the dog and his master are being tracked by the authorities in Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi's oblique existential...

Dir.: Eric Cherrière Cast: Jean-Jacques Lelté, Magalie Moreau, Maurice Poli, Yves Alfonso, Olivia Kerverdo, Hans Meyer France 2014, 108 min. Do we really need another horror film about serial killing?: Too many sensational,...

Writer|Director: Tudor Giurgiu Cast: Emilian Oprea, Mihai Constantin, Andreea Vasile 125min  Romanian  Political Thriller Romanian director Tudor Giurgiu crafts a caustic Kafkaesque thriller based on a true case of political and police corruption. Romanian...

Dir.: James Erskine Documentary; UK 2015, 90 min. Erskine’s chronology of the rise of the England Rugby Union team from whipping boys for the teams of the “Southern” hemisphere, like Australia and...

Dir.: Liv Ullmann Cast: Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton Norway/UK/Canada/USA/France/Ireland 2014, 130 min. August Strindberg’s play was written in 1888 and premiered a year later. The playwright had seen the play as...