Chocolate Underground
Two schoolmates defy an oppressive political regime to bring candy back to the people in Takayiki Hamana’s CHOCOLATE UNDERGROUND.
Category Archives: Reviews
NFF2012: BAFTA shorts
Seven shorts tied up this year’s film festival in Norwich, from BAFTA winner A MORNING STROLL to a graduation film from the University of Wales. Rosy Hunt reviews.
The Movie Orgy is weird, wonderful fun.
Grand Illusion Cinema proudly celebrates its anniversary with a rare screening of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s THE MOVIE ORGY.
Bonsai
Very few films begin by telling the audience the ending in such a blatant manner as ‘In the end, Emilia dies and Julio does not die’. But in a film like this, obviously that fact is less important than the route it will take to get there – and soon one wonders if that is … Continue reading Bonsai
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Ed Frost is generally impressed with Aardman’s tongue-twisting latest, THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS, featuring Hugh Grant as a hopeless pirate
Norwich Film Festival 2012: Day Two
Time: how we use it and play with it… what we choose to do with it. Eve Stebbing reviews the second short film programme at Norwich Film Festival 2012.
Norwich Film Festival 2012: Day One
“Much a like a great mix tape, where each song sounds like a classic.” Mike Boyd reviews the opening night of Norwich Film Festival 2012.
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s police procedural story is a beautifully composed film, featuring some great filmmaking. It may be a hard film to love, though, says Jim Ross.
Wild Bill
It’s a brave man who would dare try to breathe new life in to this most flogged of horses. But who better to take on the challenge than someone who grew up with the genre and knows it inside out? Gavin Midgley reviews Dexter Fletcher’s contemplative crime thriller WILD BILL.
Future Cinema presents Bugsy Malone
Running from now until mid-April, “Bugsy Malone – A Live Cinema Experience” follows from the incredible interactive success of Secret Cinema. Cheap and completely unpredictable, new ventures are beginning to show drama, action and magic is beginning to spark in the audience, not just on the screen.