Pieces of a Woman – Review
There is little time for set up or establishing shots in Kornel Mundruczo’s Pieces of a Woman. After a few quick glances over a Boston, and a title card displaying the date, he quickly plunges the vi...
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Borg McEnroe
An icy Nordic berg versus a brash, bratty New Yorker. The gentleman of tennis versus the superbrat. The people’s favourite versus a figure of villainy. That is exactly how Björn Borg and John McEnroe...
Fury
Saving Private Ryan raised the bar in terms of war movies. Its influence was felt in the many films that followed. It wasn’t hard to hold Stephen Spielberg’s epic tale of warfare up as the benc...
New Releases for October
So, it’s October already. The big summer blockbusters are a fading memory, and we are a few months away from anything worth a bet at next year’s award ceremonies. What we are left with then is a fair...
Nymphomaniac One Night Stand In The UK
The director Lars Von Trier seems unable or unwilling to avoid controversy even when he does not directly promote his films. After his Nazi comments while promoting Melancholia at the 2011 Cannes fil...
New releases for February
January was a month for the Hollywood heavyweights however February also brings with it some award hopefuls, along with some good old fashioned popcorn fodder. RoboCop (Released the 7th of February) ...
Sequels that shouldn’t have been made – Part 1
Films will generally get a sequel based on the box office success of the original. The film may not merit a follow up however this is a minor quibble when profit is involved. Take RoboCop 3 for insta...