Reviews

Director Malgorzata Szumowska Cast: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala There is something rather tragic about Malgorzata Szumowska's BODY. And I don't mean to insult the Silver Bear Winner or her latest...

One of the earliest 'home movie' films shows a family paddling on a Sandown beach in 1902. Another records Lerwick's Old Norse Viking Festival in 1927. Along with over 2,500...

Dir.: Tom Six Cast: Dieter Laser, Laurence Harvey, Eric Roberts, Bree Olsen, Tom Six USA 2015, 102 min. For those who have been able to watch the two preceding segments (!) of the...

Director: Bill Pohlad    Writers: Oren Moverman Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Dee Wallace, Jake Abel, Joanna Going 121min   US   Biopic of Brian Wilson LOVE & MERCY...

JET STORM (1959)  Written and directed by Cy Endfield (Zulu) this 1959 star-studded aviation drama has Dame Sybil Thorndyke, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Paul Eddington, Diane Cilento, Bernard Braden, Mai Zetterling,...

Writer/Director: Roy Andersson Holger Andersson, Nisse Vestblom 101 mins, Sweden, Germany, Norway, France To paraphrase Chaplin, life is a tragedy in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. That’s the spirit of Roy Andersson’s...

Director: Robert Altman  Writer: Joan Tewkesbury Cast: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall, Geraldine Chapman, Jeff Goldblum, Lily Tomlin, Henry Gibson 159min   Drama Musical   US It’s hard to imagine...

Director: Salomé Alexi Cast: Nino Kadradse, Salome Alexi, Koka Tagonidze, 90min  Comedy Drama  Georgia Georgian filmmaker Salome Alexi's LINE OF CREDIT is a finely-tuned and delicately rendered comedy teetering on the brink of...

Director: Bernard Rose Cast: David Garrett, Jared Harris, Joely Richardson, Veronica Ferres, Christian McKay 114min  Musical Biopic    UK|US After some interesting outings with experimental fare and psychological dramas, the most successful being...