Reviews

About the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Movements.  Spread over four years, it...

Director/screenplay Miranda July. Cast: Hamish Linklater, Miranda July USA/91mins  Cert12 Sophie and Jason live together in a warm glow of duvet hugging and low achievement in downtown LA.  Semi-fulfilled by a mindless existence...

Directors:  Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Cast: Cecile de France, Tomas Doret, Jeremie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione French with English Subtitles  Cert12a The Dardenne brothers began in documentaries and still retain much of that pared-down...

Directed by Michael Winterbottom Starring Frieda Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth 108mins English/Hindi Cert 15 Michael Winterbottom returns to Hardy with his third adaptation of the novelist, this time taking Tess of the...

Director:  Dexter Fletcher Cast: Charlie Creed Miles, Andy Serkis, Olivia Williams, Jaime Winstone UK  *** 98mins Cert15 Long-time actor Dexter Fletcher turns writer-director with another father son relationship story out this week this...

Director: Alex Gibney Cast: Jamie Sheridan, John Slattery 104mins   Documentary   US HBO Documentary Films Of all the documentaries at the London Film Festival 2012, this was the most coruscating not only...

Director: Roman Polanski, co-writer Yasmina Reza from her play "The God of Carnage" Cast: Kate Winslet, John C Reilly, Jodie Foster, Christoph Walz France/Germany/Spain/Poland  79mins No other director has Roman Polanski's uncanny power...

The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival often helps to raise the profile of small independent films and gives wider exposure to higher-profile projects that may be in the running to...

Directed by Dino and Filippo Gentili Cast: Massimo de Santis, Guido Caprino, Giorgio Colangeli, Emanuela Gallussi Italy 2008  87mins This is the first feature for these two Italian scriptwriter brothers is best described...