Reviews

Director/Writer: Barney Platts-Mills Cast: Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast, Robert Brown, Kathleen Byron 89min   UK   Drama Like Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills’s second feature, PRIVATE ROAD (1971), is semi-improvised but this...

Dir.: David Llewelyn Wark Griffith Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lilian Langdon, Constance Talmadge, Miriam Cooper USA 1916, 168 min. SILENT Premiering on September 5th 1916, when the First World War...

Dir: Zak Knutson Joey Figueroa; USA 2013, 95 min. A documentary about John Milius, one of Hollywood's most loved and hated filmmakers Hollywood in the last 50 years, has to be controversial:...

Director: Kelly Reichardt Writers: Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Fanning, Jess Eisenberg, USA 112min  Thriller Kelly Reichardt's last film Meek's Cutoff was a poetic rendering of the classic Western. NIGHT MOVES  is billed...

Dir.: G.W. Pabst Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard, Andre Roanne, Valeska Gert Germany 1929, 94 min. G.W. Pabst (1885-1967) was one of the main proponents of what Kracauer called “Die Neue...

Director: Hans Werckmeister   Writers: Hans Brennert, Friedel Köhne Cast: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph, Erna Morena 99min  Fantasy | Sci-Fi The intriguingly titled 'Algol' (1920) crops up occasionally in...

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING: The main reason to see this moving and ambitious biopic of our most famous living scientist Stephen Hawking, is that Eddie Redmayne's is pure dynamite as...

Director: Tim Burton Writers: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp 105min  Biopic Drama   US Tim Burton's latest film BIG EYES, is as...

Director: Leox Carax Cast: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Christian Cloarec 100mins  Fantasy drama   French with subtitles Maverick French auteur Leos Carax tells an autobiographical story of doomed love in Paris for this...