Reviews

Dir.: Sebastian Junger  Documentary USA/Italy/Afghanistan 2013, 84 min. This is part two of a documentary showing the soldiers of the Second Platoon of Battle Company fighting in Korengal valley in the Nuristan...

CANNES 2014 WINNERS  Meredith Taylor follows the festival day by day: DAY ONE Mr Turner (2014) **** In Competition Mike Leigh ambitious biopic of J M W Turner’s middle age serves as a worthy...

Matthew Turner spoke to Amat Escalante, the director of Mexican drama, HELI, which is currently showing in cinemas nationwide: Matthew Turner (MJT): Where did the idea come from, first of all? Amat...

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait Cast: Bryce Johnson, Alexie Gilmore 78min   US Horror When Jim (Bryce Johnson) and his girlfriend Kelly (Alexie Gilmore) arrive at Willow Creek, a remote wooded location in Northern California...

Dir: John Turturro Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber USA 2013, 98 min. After his excursion into musical films (Romance and Cigarettes and Passione), the director Turturro has...

Director/Writer: Lynn Shelton Cast: Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen Page, Alison Janney, Josh Pais, Scoot McNairy, Rod Livingston 90min  US Drama Lynn Shelton last outing was a wittily-observed and insightful rites of passage drama about...

Director: Kimberly Peirce   Writers: Lawrence D Cohen, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa   FROM THE NOVEL BY STEPHEN KING With: Julianne Moore, Chloe Grace Moretz, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Zoe Belkin,...

Dir.: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte Cast: Jane Bown, Don McCullin, Polly Toynbee UK 2014, 90 min. Jane Bown, born in 1925, was a staff photographer on The Observer from 1949, retiring only when...

Director: Amat Escalante Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda Gonzalez, Juan Eduardo Palacios Beto 104min  Mexico   Crime Thriller Cruelty goes hand in hand with beauty in this savage crime thriller from Mexican filmmaker,...