Film Review / ‘Office Christmas Party’ (MA) * and a half stars Film Review / ‘Office Christmas Party’ (MA) * and a half stars IT took three writers to concoct the story that co-directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck…
Film Review / ‘Up For Love’ (M) **** Film Review / ‘Up For Love’ (M) **** GOOD wine needs no bush, as the medieval saying went. A good story can stand…
Film Review / ‘The Menkoff Method’ (M) ** Film Review / ‘The Menkoff Method’ (M) ** THE once-prosperous EndoBank has degenerated into a data processing centre when evil and hirsute Dr…
Film Review / ‘Dancer’ (M) **** Film Review / ‘Dancer’ (M) **** UKRAINIAN dancer Sergei Polunin was in his 25th year when he left Britain’s Royal Ballet…
Film Review / ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ (MA) ***** Film Review / ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ (MA) ***** THIS clever, cynical, mordant, subtly iconoclastic and emotionally robust film has, in my opinion, the…
Film Review / ‘Like Crazy’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Like Crazy’ (M) *** IN writer/director Paolo Virzi’s Italian kind-of “Thelma and Louise”, Beatrice and Donatella become friends in…
Film Review / ‘The Fencer’ (G) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Fencer’ (G) *** and a half FROM Estonia comes a gentle, poignant film telling the story of Endil Nelis (1925-1993) whom…
Film Review / ‘I, Daniel Blake’ (MA) ***** Film Review / ‘I, Daniel Blake’ (MA) ***** KEN Loach holds the record (13) for directing films screened in Cannes Film Festival. His…
Film Review / ‘War On Everyone’ (MA) * and a half Film Review / ‘War On Everyone’ (MA) * and a half SOME call it the script. Others call it the screenplay. By whatever name, it’s the…
Film Review / ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ (M) *** WE'VE seen it all before, some might say too often. And the fact of its…
Film Review / ‘Nocturnal Animals’ (MA) **** Film Review / ‘Nocturnal Animals’ (MA) **** I'M not going to spoil writer/director Tom Ford’s second film adapting Austin Wright’s novel “Tony…
Film Review / ‘Arrival’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Arrival’ (M) *** CLEARLY, there is a cohort of the population that likes movies in which extra-terrestrial visitors…