Reviews

Dir: Arthur Landon, Cast: Bel Powley, Alfie Fields, Sara Stewart, Diana Quick, Mark Powley UK 2012, 103 min  Drama Lauren, a teenager and her younger brother Harvey live with their mentally impaired...

Director: Markus Imhoof           Writers: Markus Imhoof and Kerstin Hoppenhaus 95min    US Documentary Bees are our future but the future’s not bright according to this important documentary...

DIRECTOR: STUART BLUMBERG         WRITERS: STUART BLUMBERG, MATT WINSTON CAST: Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit 112min   US Romcom Following on from Steve McQueen's Shame,...

Director: Anne Fontaine Screenplay: Christopher Hampton Cast: Robin Wright, Naomi Watts, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn 100mins  Australia/France   Drama The oedipus complex provides the counterpoint to this complex drama about female sexuality...

Director: Lucy Walker 90mins  ****  Documentary  Biopic  US The story of snowboarders Kevin Pearce and Shaun White has an unexpected outcome.  Lucy Walker's adreniline-fuelled, action-packed sports doc is a visual feast of panoramic...

GRAVITY  ***       OUT OF COMPETITION Seven years after Children of Men, Mexican Director Alfonso Cuarón's GRAVITY 3D swirled silently into Venice with a distant murmur of astronauts talking via...

Having dipped her toes in international cinema, with her French based production ELLES, Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska has since returned to her native country for the poignant drama In the...

Director: Malgoska Szumowska   Writers: Malgoska Szumowska and Michal Englert Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukieiwcz, Lukasz Simlat, Maja Ostaszewska Malgoska Szumowska's second outing after the acclaimed Elles centres on Adam, a celibate Catholic...

Director: James Franco   Writers: James Franco/William Faulkner Cast: James Franco, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green, Danny McBride, Richard Jenkins. US Drama Like him or loathe him, James Franco is certainly prolific.  Here he...