Reviews

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...

Director: Daniel Ribeiro Cast: Tess Amorim,  Fabio Audi, Ghilherme Lobo, This upbeat story of two teenagers is the feelgood coming-out debut from Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Ribeiro who came to fame with You,...

Dir.: Jean-Luc Godard; Cast: Heloise Godet, Kamel Abdeli; France 2014, 70 min. The old provocateur is back: JLG is 83, but still out to re-invent cinema as we know it. This...

Dir: Claude Lanzmann; France, Austria 2013; 218 min Documentary The title of the film was given, tongue in cheek, by its main protagonist: Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein (1905-1989), who was the third  and...