Land Grabbing
A documentary on large-scale farming practices that emotionally engages the more it strives to remain objective.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Hedi Schneider Is Stuck Q&A
Mike Levy recounts the highlights from Sonja Heiss’s Q&A following HEDI SCHNEIDER GETS STUCK.
THE HALLOW
Ireland-set horror that gives into conventional shocks after a remarkable, unsettling first half-hour.
The New Rijksmuseum
This documentary about the troubled redesign of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is as much about local politics and bureaucracy as it is about the museum’s masterpieces.
Steamboat Bill Junior
Live accompanist Neil Brand helped the action flow for STEAMBOAT BILL JUNIOR, screened at the Cambridge Film Festival.
As We Were Dreaming
AS WE WERE DREAMING maybe be generic, but it has enough fun and firepower to entertain most, writes Jim Moore.
Von Caligari Zu Hitler
What does cinema know that we don’t?
Legend
Tom Hardy is on mesmerising form as both Kray twins in this violent but stylish and often funny film, writes Garry Pope.
La Famille Bélier
This French box office hit is both funny and emotional, but does it do its deaf characters a disservice?
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
There’s the feeling that this is a film about death made for the living, and that it’s a bit of a necessary failure…