Reviews

Director/Writer: Paul Wright Michael Smiley, George MacKay, Kate Dickie, Brian McCardie, Nichola Burley 92mins   UK Thriller This low budget britflic has a brilliant central performance from George MacKay who plays Aaron, a...

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014: RETROSPECTIVE “AESTHETICS OF SHADOW, LIGHTNING STYLES 1915-1950” The films of the German Expressionism of the twenties DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI, 1920), the more classical lightning of the...

(La Variabile Umana) Director  Bruno Oliviero Cast: Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Alice Raffaelli, Sandra Ceccarelli 83min  Crime Drama   Italian with English subtitles Bruno Oliviero's moody crime drama focuses on a police inspector whose life goes...

Alexei Balabanov Retrospective: Brother / Брат In celebration of late and great Alexei Balabanov, Russky London KinoKlub are running through the major works of one of Russia's most incredible and uncompromising cult directors...

Director/Writer: Aleksei Balabanov Cast: Sergei Bodrov Jr, Viktor Suhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko,  Mariya Zhukova,  Yuri Kuznetsov, Slava Butusov 93min   Crime Drama    Russian with subtitles Balabanov's light-hearted but caustically realistic BROTHER portrays gangster-ridden...

Dir.: Tom Petch; Cast: Owain Arthur, Nav Sidhu, Ben Righton, Daniel Fraser, Nicholas Beveney UK 2013, 85 min.   Drama Afghanistan, Helmand Provence, 2006: A patrol of seven British soldiers are fighting...

The 64th Berlin International Film Festival is ready to roll with 20 of the 23 films in the Competition programme vying for the GOLDEN and SILVER BEARS. The following countries are participating: Algeria,...

Director:                     Aleksei Balabanov Script:                         Aleksei Balabanov Producer:                    Sergey Selyanov Cast:                            Mikhail Skryabin, Yuriy Matveev, Aleksandr Mosin, Aida Tumutova, Anna Korotayeva, Varvara Belokurova, Roman Burenkov Russia...

Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise came hot on the heels of his early horror film Sisters. De Palma planned both films at the same time but the complex production design and...