Reviews

Director: Andrew Cividino 89min  Canadian Drama Andrew Cividino lampoons and laments the male of the species in his piquant and delightfully-observed rites of passage debut feature, SLEEPING GIANT. Making great use of...

Dir.: Debbie Tucker Green; Cast: Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai Francis Lewis; UK 2014, 105 min. First time writer/director Debbie Tucker Green, a successful playwright and theatre director, is asking the...

DIRECTOR: Emmanuelle Bercot, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Paradot, Diane Rouxel, Aurore Broutin 120min  French   Drama Actress and filmmaker, Emmanuelle Bercot, delivers a thorny and morally complex dramady to open Cannes Film...

Dir.: Miguel Gomes; Cast: Christa Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Americo Silva, Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland 2015, 125 min. In part of three of his trilogy Arabian Nights, titled The Enchanted One, Portuguese writer/director Miguel Gomes...

Director: Xavier Dolan Cast: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard 139min  Drama  Canadian/French The prolific outpourings of Canadian wild child Xavier Dolan continue here with a searingly emotional mother/son melodrama that...

Dir.: Samantha Fuller Documentary with Jennifer Beals, Wim Wenders, Monte Hellman, Constance Towers USA 2013 , 80 min. Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) was a true maverick, which is not only reflected in the 24...

AUSTERIA (THE INN, 1983) is set in the Galician (now Polish) border with Russia in the first days of World War I. Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s film of the novel of the...

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL this year is very much a female affair with women stars and directors set to feature heavily in the competition line-up. With Isabella Rossellini heading up the...

Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy returned to Locarno Film Festival again in 2014 as a jury member overseeing its Pardo di domani competition, having won a Silver Leopard there in 2012...