Reviews

Director: Jill Soloway Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jane Lynch USA  99min   Comedy Drama Very much prescribed viewing for any affluent and intelligent women who give up work to focus...

Set in a back-to-the-future dystopia, this doom-filled drama, based on Dostoyesky's short story, is suffused with all kinds of influences from Kafta to Orwell to Polanski.'s The Tenant. Richard Ayoade's follow-up...

Director: Ignacio Ferreras Writers: Angel de la Cruz, Paco Roca, Ignacio Ferreras, Rosanna Cecchini Voices of Matthew Modine, Martin Sheen, George Coe 89min   Animated drama One day, we will all have empathy for...

SUNDANCE LONDON is a great way to catch up on the latest US indie titles hot off the runway from Sundance Utah and brought to you by the lovely Robert...

The theme of paternity and nature versus nurture has captured the imagination of directors and filmgoers of late: Place Beyond the Pines, It's All So Quiet and While I Lay Dying are some...

Dir.: Bruno Barreto Cast: Miranda Otto, Gloria Peres, Tracy Middendorf Brazil 2013, 118 min. In 1951, the poet Elisabeth Bishop (1911-1979), suffering from writer’s block, travels from New York to Rio de Janiero,...

Director: Lukas Moodysson Writer: Lukas and Coco Moodysson Cast: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark, Matthias Wiberg 102min  Sweden   Drama Lukas Moodysson moves away from his more serious fare with this...

Dir.: Mohammad-Ali Talebi    Writer: Abbas Kiarostami Cast: Hadi Alipour, Amir Janfada, Majid Alipour Iran/Japan 1999, 81 min. WILLOW AND WIND headlines a touring film season exploring and celebrating rare film classics about...

Director: Nicholas Ray Writer: Stewart Stern Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran  111min REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE gets a sparkling makeover as a tribute to the actor James...