Beasts of the Southern Wild: film review
Having spent the majority of 2012 hovering up accolades at numerous worldwide festivals, Beasts of the Southern Wild arrives in blighty to compete for yet another award at the London Film Festival (the Sutherland award for first feature) before its general release on Friday. Seen as one of the trending ‘green issue’ films when it...
Spoiler Alert
Spoilers; a word that used to be largely unheard of within film outside the Fast and Furious franchise has now become so much part of the current lexicon that debates rage about them and journalists write in fear of going anywhere near them. As most who follow film are aware, a spoiler is exactly that...
Searching for Sugar Man – Interview with Director Malik Bendjelloul
There’s an engaging enthusiasm about Malik Bendjelloul that seems so apparent that it almost comes as a bit of a surprise to hear something negative from him, “I don’t really like music documentaries.” It’s even more curious considering the young Swede is the Director behind the music documentary of the year. The Mediterraneanlooking Scandinavian sees...
The Appeal of the Road Movie
Ah the open road. A place which for most is a nightmare, a tarmac track they share for hours shoulder to shoulder with countless others back dropping their journey from A to B has been transformed, by cinema, into something of magical folklore, a place of opportunity, freedom and possibility. Last month we were treated...
Le Havre review
There is often cause for celebration among cinephiles with the release of a new Aki Kaurismaki film. The Finnish director and king of cinematic deadpan is greatly admired by the likes of Jim Jarmusch and has made a lasting impression on current filmmakers as diverse as Wes Anderson and his near-namesake, Swede Roy Andersson....
Good Old Oscar
Remember the past? The way things were back then in the past? Of course you do, it was great. It certainly hasn’t escaped the attention ofHollywood, especially over at the Academy Awards where the nominations drew up a number of predicatively backwards-looking films. This, of course, is nothing new for the Oscars, The King’s Speech,...
The Artist Review
It’s hard to feel like you haven’t seen The Artist already and not just because of its nostalgic feel. It caused a storm at Cannes back in May and has been seemingly mentioned ever since. The latter no doubt due to the ever significant involvement of Harvey Weinstein, lumbering over the project as an oligarch...
