The Great Beauty
Sorrentino’s corrupt, shameless Rome establishes a chokehold of gratuitous hedonism which it refuses to release for the film’s duration.
Category Archives: Reviews
The War
SHORTFUSION is often a treasure trove of inventive and beautiful cinema nuggets, and this year is no exception, writes Owen Baker.
Upstream Color
Squirm-inducing body horror, the field recording expeditions of a pig farmer, meditations on free will, and a vague romance. Paul Milne reviews Shane Carruth’s latest.
Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett is a magnificent, slow-motion human disaster in Woody Allen’s BLUE JASMINE, writes Ann Linden.
The Way Way Back
Predictable it may be, but Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s comedy drama is still something to savour, writes Gavin Midgley.
Lovelace
A varied performance from Amanda Seyfried, and an abundance of 70s clichés – Liam Jack reviews LOVELACE, the story behind DEEP THROAT.
Kuma
KUMA – a satisfyingly slow burning web of family lies, secrets, mistrust – feels like an important piece of work, writes Liam Jack.
Time Bandits
TIME BANDITS is the first in Gilliam’s trilogy which also includes BRAZIL and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Picturehouse’s “Culture Shock” strand brought the remastered BANDITS to Cambridge.
Only God Forgives
Hyper-conscious, hallucinatory & highly contemplative – tantamount to being stuck in a ponderous nightmare, but one you’ve agreed to partake in. Dan Harling on ONLY GOD FORGIVES.
From Up On Poppy Hill
Gorō Miyazaki had full artistic control of POPPY HILL but his 72-year-old father was involved in script-writing and poster design – it seems Hayao Miyazaki never wants to retire.