MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
Something of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, French master filmmaker Alain Resnais’s final film (he died…
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MIFF 2014: Life Itself (2014)
It’s hard to imagine what the landscape of film criticism would be had there been no Roger Ebert. Forget for a moment that he…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
Screening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal, writer/director Volker Schlöndorff’s television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
After abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a philosophical exploration of three dimensional cinema – a concept…
MIFF 2014: Curtain Call (2014)
“Regrets, I’ve have a few, but then again, too few to mention.” – lyrics from My Way (sung by Frank Sinatra and many others)….
Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Critics barely had time to give any attention to Marvel’s latest offering before it was announced that its second instalment would hit cinemas in…
Film Review: Lucy (2014)
Based on the widespread misconception that humans only ever use 10% of their brain capacity, Lucy takes this very basic premise and asks what…
Film Review: The Selfish Giant (2014)
The Selfish Giant, inspired by the Oscar Wilde short story of the same name, is a small gem of a film. Written and directed…
Film Review: Some Velvet Morning (2014)
For anyone considering going to see Some Velvet Morning, there’s one thing you should know: you mustn’t leave the room until the credits roll….
Film Review: A Most Wanted Man (2014)
In the frantic search for answers following 9/11 it was discovered that many of the plans for the attacks were conceived in the historic…