AFFF 2016: Film Review: Microbe & Gasoline (2015)
byMicrobe & Gasoline is the latest feature of French auteur Michel Gondry. Pre-teenage adolescent Daniel (Ange Dargent) feels overly anxious and misplaced in life. At…
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Film Review: Triple 9 (2016)
byTriple 9 is a complicated, character driven heist film filled with betrayal, enduring loyalties, bad cops, good cops, double crossings, criminals and lots of…
Film Review: Gods of Egypt (2016)
byAnother reviewer has described Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt as ‘one hot mess’, and that would seem to be a fairly accurate description. With…
Film Review: Son of Saul (2015)
byWith what would have to be one of the most astonishing debut films of all time – and horrific in a way that is…
Film Review: Theeb (2014)
byTheeb marks the beginning of two different yet equally important things. Firstly it’s the directorial debut of Naji Abu Nowar which marks him as…
Film Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
byFollowing in the muddy footsteps of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is the equally damp Pride and Prejudice and Zombies from director and script writer Burr…
Film Review: Teatro Alla Scala: The Temple Of Wonders (2015)
byIn Milan, Italy, sits the Teatro alla Scala. One of the world’s greatest theatres, it has hosted every name that is worth hosting in…
Film Review: Tangerine (2015)
byTechnology has progressed so quickly that people can now starting shooting films on iPhones. Like Tangerine. But it is not just ‘a’ film, but…
Film Review: Trumbo (2015)
byIn the late 1940s Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was a screenwriter with a talent that placed him at the vanguard of the Hollywood elite….
Film Review: The End of the Tour (2015)
byIn 1996 Infinite Jest was released. A sprawling, postmodern epic, it is almost 1000 pages long and boasts 388 accompanying footnotes, and has become…