Reviews

Dir.: Clint Eastwood Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes; USA 2014, 132 min. Clint Eastwood is no stranger to films portraying war, “Letters from Iwo Jima” and “Flags of our Fathers”, were...

Dir.: Marshall Curry; Documentary with Matthew Vandyke, Marshall Curry USA 2014, 83 min Documentary In 2006, twenty-six year old Matthew Vandyke left Baltimore, Maryland bound for a "crash course in manhunt”. A...

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...