Film Review: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom (2013)
byIn the aftermath of Nelson Mandela’s death on 5 December 2013, most tributes praised the former South African President, lauding his contributions to the…
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Film Review: Labor Day (2013)
byJason Reitman has an impressive resume to date and it’s full of unconventional romances: America’s love of smoking in Thank You for Smoking; coping with…
Film Blerg: Last Vegas (2013)
byBilly (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) are childhood friends, constantly adjusting to the fact that they’re…
Film Review: Grudge Match (2013)
byAt the outset, when you hear Grudge Match, a film about two aging boxing rivals who are coaxed out of retirement to fight one…
Film Review: The Past (2013)
byAsghar Farhadi’s highly anticipated follow up to 2011’s A Separation is another portrait of complex family life, this time in Paris. Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa)…
Film Review: Lone Survivor (2013)
byThere have been many films about soldiers and war, but few quite as brutally visceral and arduous as Lone Survivor, directed and with a…
Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
bySteve McQueen really does have a thing for the embattled and imprisoned protagonist. His three feature films to date have focused on an Irish republican leading a hunger strike in Hunger, a sex-addict slipping deeper into the despair of his compulsion in Shame, and now the agonising capture and slavery of freeman Solomon Northrop in 12 Years a Slave.
Film Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
byGreed, power games, drugs and New York financial corruption in the 80s. No this is not Wall Street, but simply another Scorsese take on…
Film Review: The Wind Rises (2013)
byThe Wind Rises, written and directed by renowned Japanese animated film director Hazao Miyazaki, will be his final film. Known for creating colourful, vivid…
Film Review: 47 Ronin (2013)
bySet in Edo era Japan, 47 Ronin follows a band of disgraced samurai who have been stripped of their rank following the death of…