Reviews

Dir.: James Kent;  Writers: Juliette Towhidi from the original book by Vera Britain Cast: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Emma Watson, Dominic West, Hayley Atwell UK 2014, 130 min. Drama Based on...

Dir.: Damien Chazelle; Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist; USA 2014, 106 min. Writer/director Damien Chazelle’s WHIPLASH is an mutually shrill and testosterone-loaded duel between student and teacher. Set in...

Dir.: Zaza Urushadze Cast: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nugamen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meshki Estonia/Georgia 2013, 87 min. Writer/director Zaza Urushadze (Here comes the Dawn) has succeeded where many before him failed: TANGERINES is an...

Dir.: Stefan Haupt Cast: Matthias Hungerbühler, Sven Schelker, Anatole Taubmann, Stephan Witschi, Marianne Sägebrecht, Ernst Ostertag, Röbi Rapp; Switzerland 2014, 100 min. Docu-Drama THE CIRCLE informs us, rather surprisingly, that Zurich once was...

Writer/Director: Jesse Moss With Keegan Edwards, Jay Reinke 102min  US Doc Never has a film about the devastating effects of economic migration managed to be so haunting and visually appealing. In his effecting...

Director: Roland Joffe Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Before I Go To Sleep is the glum screen adaptation of a best-seller penned by hospital worker turned writer, S J Watson. Set in...

Director: Lucia Puenzo Cast: Alex Brendemuhl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening, Alan Diacz, Natalie Oreiro 98min  Argentina  Drama The name of Dr Mengele ('The Angel of Death') always strikes fear into anyone familiar with...

Dir.: Leo McCarey Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont USA 1933, 68 min. In 1932 Paramount Pictures announced that Ernst Lubitsch would direct the next Marx Brothers film...

On November 28th 1979, a New Zealand plane with 257 sightseers disappeared into thin air somewhere over Antarctica. It later emerged that the plane had crashed into Mount Erebus, apparently...