Reviews

Director: Alain Gomis  Writer: Alain Gomis  Dialogue: Djolof Mbengue Cast:  Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengue, Anisia Uzeyman, Aissa Maiga France/Senegal  86mins Saul Williams plays Satche in this hauntingly bittersweet drama from French Senegalese director,...

Despite the ostentatious wealth of Moscow's elite, two films at the London Film Festival show us that modern life for ordinary Russians is still hard-going and hasn't change much since...

Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta  Writer: Buddhadev Dasgupta Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ananya Chatterjee, Pankaj Tripathy 132 mins  Language:  Hindi  Origin: India   Drama A fruitful collaboration between the prominent Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta and the...

Dir.: Alphan Eseli; Cast: Ugur Polat, Nergis Ozturk, Serdar Orcin; Turkey 2013, 112 min.  Turkish with English Subtitles   Drama Alphan Eseli’s debut film THE LONG WAY HOME, a gruelling masterpiece centring on...

[youtube id="eKePoqaeokk" width="600" height="350"] Director/Script:  Tobias Lindholm Cast: Johan Philip Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moller, Abdihakin Asgar, Amalie Ihle Alstrup 99min      English and Danish with subtitles From the opening scenes...

Director: Pascal Bonitzer Writers: Pascal Bonitzer and Agnès de Sacy Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Marin Orcand Tourrès 100min Drama  French with subtitles Kristin Scott Thomas and Jean-Pierre Bacri star in...

Dir. Dan Krauss: USA 2012, 79 min. To make a proper anti-war film, one has to avoid glorifying any action and Dan Krauss THE KILL TEAM shows very little war action,...

János Szász's magnificently-crafted adaptation of Agota Kristof''s French-language: 'The Notebook' (hence the title) is a lesson in history and a treasure of Hungarian contemporary cinema which has lurked much in the shadows of late. Christian...

Director/Script: Nicole Holofcener Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette USA 91min  Comedy drama If you're a fan of Seinfeld's Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her particularly brand of self-deprecating humour, then this...