Film Review: Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
byIt’s been ten years – yes, an entire decade has gone by! – since the world first got a glimpse of what was to…
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Film Review: Graduation (2016)
byRomanian director Cristian Mungiu has only made five feature films, but in that time he’s won nearly every major award at Cannes, conquered his…
Review: National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
byWritten at the mid-point of his career Twelfth Night (or, What you Will) is arguably the standout best comedy that Shakespeare ever wrote. Adapted…
Film Review: A Man Called Ove (2015)
bySwedish cinema can lay claim to giving the cinematic world more than its fair share of great drama. Think of Ingmar Bergman giving us the…
Film Review: The Dancer (2016)
byIt’s that time of year again when the tricolore flutters in the breeze, the air smells faintly of baguettes and the works of Albert Camus…
Film Review: The Salesman (2016)
byAfter making what many consider to be the best film of 2011 with his masterpiece A Separation and competing for the Palme d’Or with…
Film Review: Fist Fight (2017)
byThe setting is the final day of a lower class public high school, the stars are Charlie Day and Ice Cube, the jokes are…
Film Review: Hidden Figures (2016)
byThe current fascination with American race relations continues like never before in Oscar season 2017. The pallid white-fest of the previous years climaxed famously…
Film Review: Fences (2016)
by“Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in” – August Wilson, Fences. Boundaries, borders, divisions, and…
Film Review: The Handmaiden (2016)
byWith The Handmaiden, director Park Chan-wook (perhaps best known for Oldboy) adds another visually indulgent and thematically risqué film to his resume. The screenplay,…