Reviews

Watching Arthur Ransome's children's classic "Swallows and Amazons" makes you realise just how much the world has changed, even since the seventies, when Claude Whatham's screen adaptation was made. Those...

Director: Erik Skoldbjaerg Writer: Nikolaj Frobenius and others Cast: Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Aksel Hennie, Jonathan LaPaglia, Jorgen Langhelle, Andre Eriksen 111 min  Thriller  Norway Erik Skoldbjaerg - best known for Insomnia (1997) delves back...

Director: Patrice Leconte Writer: Patrice Leconte With its Belle Epoque overtones and hauntingly romantic retro feel A PROMISE is set in a German industrial town before the Great War. It stars Alan...

Despite recent successes for Hungarian indie film - the future looks uncertain - Andre Simonoveisz explores the reasons why: Hungarian cinema has been arthouse-orientated since the mid-seventies when the reformist/revisionist Hungarian...

Dir.: Scott Michell; Cast: Danny Horn, Charity Wakefield, Shaun Dingwall UK 2014, 102 min. Luke, an ordinary bloke, wakes up one morning and finds a mutilated corpse in his bathroom. He soon teams...

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL ****   SILVER BEAR, GRAND JURY PRIZE Writer/Director: Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness Cast: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric,  Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum,...

  Director: David Gordon Green Writer: Gary Hawkins Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Adrien Mishler US Southern Gothic Drama In Joe, David Gordon Green's bleak exploration of a macho community in hicksville,...

Dir.: Marc Silver; Documentary with Gael Garcia Bernal; UK/Mexico 2013, 85 min. In August 2010 a male body was discovered in the Sonora desert in Arizona. No clues to the identity...

Director: Michael Noer Writers: Michael Noer, Rasmus Heisterberg Cast: Gustav Dyekjaer Giese, Oscar Dyekjaer Giese, Julifi Al-Jaburi, Roland Moller, Lena Maria Christensen 91min  Danish with subtitles   Crime Drama Michael Noer explores the criminal...